Julie Goyder

Overload #30 The Happyness Shop I am reading the newspaper… Entrez-vous designer matchmaking for professionals. Seminars conducted by Rosalind Neville, Australia’s leading authority on courtship, and author of Dial a Woman, Dial a Man – specialising in women age 25-65. … and suddenly I find myself in an enormous shop full of colour and sound… Julie Goyder weiterlesen

Marjana Gaponenko

Overload #30 Neue Texte Abschiedszimmer Wahrhaftig zeigt sich das Gesicht des Nichtmehrgeliebten. Im Augenblick, wenn ich es streife, zerfleischt der Wolf, das Gedächtnis, sich selbst und es kommt ein Wölflein zur Welt. Wahrhaftig ist dein Gesicht, du mein Nichtmehrgeliebter. Ich streife und streife es und vergesse dich, du, den ich unzählige Male in meinen unzähligen… Marjana Gaponenko weiterlesen

Ela Fornalska

Overload #30 Melbourne in Graz Gedichte, Tagebücher und Fotos Wäre mein Haus in Flammen, Würde ich diese Dinge retten: Gedichte Tagebücher Fotografien Sie sind für mich Zeltboden Zukunft, Präsens, Vergangenheit Sie sammeln mich in der Realität. Das unersetzliche Papier wohnt in einer leicht entzündbaren Welt für immer ist nicht sicher.   Hält mich fest Flüstert… Ela Fornalska weiterlesen

Trafford Fehlberg

Overload #30 First Works The Scream The scream ripped apart the darkness of the night. It was the same scream that had her sit bolt upright in bed. The same that had awakened in her a burning desire to protect. It was a child’s scream, an infant scream of pure terror and it had driven… Trafford Fehlberg weiterlesen

Chris Duncan

Overload #30 The Winner of the 2002 Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes Sam Hayter, through an absurd amount of effort dedicated to a task so without import, manages to drop a single salt crystal wedged precariously between a grubby thumb and index finger into a glass of warm water: the star performer for the wriggling ray… Chris Duncan weiterlesen

Anne Dernelley

Overload #30 Poor Digestion There’s a McDonald’s store that’s not operating that well. The kids who work there aren’t organised properly and fart about, which makes it hard on a certain manager who is quieter than the rest. ‘Justin, we need two Macs please.’ And this manager rests her arm on the hamburger outflow and… Anne Dernelley weiterlesen

Libby Dent

Overload #30 The Essence of a Moment El Museo de jamon Backwards on the way to Santiago Your ‘bacan’ (cool) tourist guide gave us the hip version of Madrid. Catchy scripts that were funny enough I forget the words, just have the laughter. I do remember you’d torn the Madrid section from a complete edition,… Libby Dent weiterlesen

S.M. Chianti

Overload #30 Memories of a Philosopher Sid often savoured life retrospectively. ‘Without memories’ he would say when he was old enough to philosophise, ‘life wouldn’t make much sense.’ He was born during wartime but didn’t realise until he became a philosopher that starting life during a war can alter things. The earliest, fragmented memories were… S.M. Chianti weiterlesen

Helen Castles

Overload #30 Cinderella Was A Serial Killer & Other Home Truths Story One: Snow White Once upon a time in a cold and rainy place called Seattle there lived a beautiful lady with a good heart. She and her husband were extremely well off and had an extraordinarily happy marriage. Yes, even though they lived… Helen Castles weiterlesen

Bonny Cassidy

Overload #30 2 Poems for March (UNTITLED) Even as her brother dies, the buttons of her school blazer stay in their loops, the pleats of her tunic keep their creases and swing with chic around her knees. Her gesture’s from a supermarket aisle conversation, her brows caught in an arch of what by any other… Bonny Cassidy weiterlesen