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Biomimicry
This story contains horror themes, including violence and gore. My car is absorbed into trailing tendrils of fog, the windshield...
Something More
“I didn’t think you would come.” Samira’s heart trips over itself at the familiar voice and she whirls around. Theo is much taller now...
Boop on the Nose
“Breaking news: planet Earth stopped rotating for approximately fifteen minutes this morning. T before the planet resumed rotation....
Safe & Sound
I have this plush cat I got when I was one, Still sitting on my bed, Guard duty never done. A shelf of painted figurines Of Voronetz and...
baby dracula
baby dracula, your mother’s womb is hollow. you spawn in utero out of godly lust — mother fashions herself saint mary. only an evil god...
there is a werewolf who stalks the woods
he is no more man than he is wolf when he is hungry he feeds digs his fangs and bares his teeth it’s all the same two sides — sedis...
what do persimmons taste like
Of course persimmons aren’t trying to taste like apples or pears or a strange mix of the two, or like either of them. Being, tasting like...
Threads of Desire
We move as one, our bodies intertwine as we do a dance we’re all too familiar with. Your fingers wrap around my neck like a necklace,...
One Last Summer
I leap along the sand in my salty, damp swimming costume. The beach is almost deserted and stretches longer than time. I am eleven years...
Getting to the Bottom of It
They say when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But I’m not in Rome, I’m at level 4 of Maxforce Tower, and in this jungle of paperwork and...
Do you actually like me?
Or your perception of me? I am your fag. I am your dog. I am your jester. I am the one who entertains, yet never reveals dimension. I am...
The Word of Flesh
i. The word of Flesh is easily learnt when eager tongues converse. They speaketh: cling to me, sing to me. Feel the weight of them press...
Can you see me? Because I see you.
I liked to watch. When my mind drifted from the work in front of me, I’d stare and observe the tufts of blond hair that grew from his...
Beauty, Sleeping
She’s beautiful when she’s asleep. She’s always beautiful, but when she’s awake she shines so brightly that it blinds all around her....
A Drop of Heaven
Trigger warning: blood and gore “There is something so divine about drinking from a glass that is at least a hundred years older than you...
Entrenched
In the haze of the casino's neon gleam, He stakes his bets, chasing a dream. Each chip a wager, each spin a race, But as the ball falls,...
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.