Eva Jackson: 0037

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Victoria Williams: 0190

His good bye note said: I’m going to try being married to someone else now. Her heart doesn’t break as easily.
A year later I shredded the thing and threw it at them, but it got lost in the rest of the confetti. Pretty breezy day.

Spaza: 0016

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The Party's Over by Gary Cummiskey

Eva Jackson: 0036

I let a small cat into the house. Its name is Nico. It explored everything with utter thoroughness, mapping it in its mind as it went, as though driven by a curiosity that filled it up entirely. I have never actually seen a curious cat before. It stared out from the second floor balcony, and hunkered down to look at the tarmac and cars below. Then it went upstairs, got stuck under the bed, got bored, and tried to enter in under the bath through that small unaccountable hole every bath has in the side. I need a pet.

cherry bomb: 0001

Tearoom Books welcomes cherry bomb as a contributor!

Victoria Williams: 0189

It’s not so much that you must abandon hope when you enter here. It’s just, you’ll probably come to realise that this is the place where hope comes to drown itself in the bath-tub. Oh and while we’re on the subject, the bath-tub does need cleaning...

Internet Sentences: 0019

I crave your indulgence, knowing that this my mail maybe astounded to you.

Source: Junk Mail

I Always Fall In Love Too Easily by Gary Cummiskey

Eva Jackson: 0035

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Victoria Williams: 0188

The whistling of his nose, like a steam train, an eagle, the kettle. The heart of a scream?

Spaza: 0015

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Honey Bee by Gary Cummiskey

Eva Jackson: 0034

Do you
Swim
In the sea?
I always do.
Let's go.
Also swim in pools,
Up and down,
Until Fit,
In the future.

Haidee Kruger: shaking language out of the furrows of habit

Gary Cummiskey interviews Haidee Kruger at The Dye Hard Interviews.

Victoria Williams: 0187

You know how they say when you’ve been starving a long time, a little food will kill you?

The Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez

The Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Richard Pithouse.

Nice Work If You Can Get It by Gary Cummiskey