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1. I am walking Wurundjeri country. Country that does not belong to me. Although the cats are nice enough.   2. The suburb is Brunswick. But it could be Fitzroy.   3. I am not familiar with the area, but am becoming so.   4. You realise you’re getting better acquainted once the small geographies begin to register. The appearance of the houses: almost comically safe and warm. The approach of the intersections: wide, but not country-wide. The way the intersections combine to produce infinite street vistas your eye can never reach the end of. The number of trees that […]

The roads were empty because of the virus and sailing by at 60 all I caught was a glimpse of the wall and it was difficult to say for certain, but I thought the flag was gone. I’d only just figured out what it was. Months before, when I’d first noticed it, I was stumped. I had been walking the Villain, walking all over the suburb for hours on end trying to tire him out. Even then, plodding up the hill on foot, I’d almost missed it, clocked it late, had to haul back hard on the lead and retrace […]

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Marrow moulded I raised the scalpel to make the first cut into that crenulated piece of flesh and found I couldn’t do it. Here before me was the brain of a sheep, nothing more than a hunk of meat, but I couldn’t help think of sheepy thoughts locked inside those dead cells as though they were exhibits in a museum. Year nine science class, and the brain sat on the desk in front of us on a chopping board—similar to the white plastic one we had in our kitchen at home. It was pinky-grey, a dead sort of colour, mottled […]

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Social Media and Moral Outrage   Justine is a woman I’ve never met. She has a decent job in PR. Well, as decent as a PR job can be. She has a small Twitter audience: just over 160 others follow her. Her Twitter profile is fairly average, a few complaints, an odd banal comment, a few jokes. Jokes can be the end of you. Especially if they’re not funny, or not funny to some, or untimely, or just not very well constructed. That’s why stand-up would be terrifying. I couldn’t imagine doing stand-up. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the only thing worse than […]

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