‘Ursula, Chapter 6: Fall Apart at Any Moment’, a Serial Comic by Michael Hawkins
This is the sixth instalment of ‘Ursula’, a comic by Michael Hawkins we’re currently serialising. Catch up on chapters one, two, three, four and five.I don’t break up with Trel in the end. I can’t...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Ben Merriman browcontribs: Ben Merriman...
Featured Contributor: Ben Merrimanbrowcontribs:Ben Merriman is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago and fiction editor at Chicago Review. Read more at benmerriman.tumblr.comRead Ben’s column...
View Article‘Suburban Myths’, by Oliver Mestitz
Photograph by Marcus Wong. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.The Bendigo Toe TicklerSam says he knew a kid who saw The Toe Tickler in primary...
View Article‘How Faye Got to the Maldives’, by Luke Ryan
Photograph by Hiroyuki-H. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence.On a scale of one to that video of the kid who gave his lunch to a homeless man and totally...
View ArticleA mixtape by Sovereign Trax
This is a special web feature. Please click through to our site to view it.Sovereign Trax – A Mix for The Lifted Brow by The Lifted Brow on MixcloudSovereign Trax presents a monthly playlist of...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Oliver Mestitz browcontribs: Oliver...
Featured Contributor: Oliver Mestitzbrowcontribs:Oliver Mestitz writes poetry and fiction and makes music as The Finks.Read Oliver’s fiction piece ‘The Sad Thing’ in the TLB ebook.Read ‘Ways of Being’,...
View Article‘Cooled by Waves’, by Michael Fikaris
Cooled By Waves first appeared in The Lifted Brow: Digital Volume 10, Issue 2: The Least Known Golden Girls Edition.Michael Fikaris is an artist based in Melbourne, Australia. His work can be seen at...
View Article‘inferior order or given order’, a poem by Astrid Lorange
Photograph by Simon Blackley. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence.baby vitality, blind spots, counterfeit gloom worlds and theatres of imperceptible, antlike...
View Article‘When He Disappeared: Becoming a Non-Believer’, by Alexia Derbas
Based on a public domain image from the Wikimedia Commons.God was in the shower with me and it felt weird. When I realised He was hovering around, ubiquitous as the Internet, the number and duration of...
View Article"For personal reasons, ANZAC Day was one of the more difficult days in the...
“For personal reasons, ANZAC Day was one of the more difficult days in the year – like many immigrants to Australia, the Critic had had an immediate experience of war, the machismo that fuelled war,...
View ArticleSydney Writers’ Festival ticket giveaway!
Thanks to the good people at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, we have two double passes to give away to events at this year’s festival, which kicks off on 18 May.What can I win tickets to?We have a double...
View Article‘The Honeymoon Stage’, by Oscar Schwartz
Public domain image via Pixabay.ellen degeneresif there is one thing you know without doubt it is the pleasure of arabica coffee beans if there is one thing you do with abandon it is an above average...
View Article‘My Romances’, by Sofija Stefanovic
Image courtesy Penguin Australia.There is something thrilling about assuming a fake identity and running with it. In this case, the people I’m talking to are also assuming a fake identity, though they...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Katherine Botten browcontribs: Katherine...
Featured Contributor: Katherine Bottenbrowcontribs:Katherine Botten is a vehicle for the construction and destabilization of identity, the aesthetics of illness, and the distress of living. Katherine...
View ArticleA smattering of reactions to TLB25
A couple of months ago, the 25th issue of The Lifted Brow hit stores and the stoops of our subscribers. Since then, we’ve been hearing all kinds of nice things about it. Some of this feedback has been...
View Article‘The Cutter’, by Adam Ouston
Photograph by Guwashi999. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.You are not going to believe this but one day vultures started descending on Hobart. It was almost...
View Article‘Aching for Apocalypse’, by Alice Robinson
1.I was an only child petrified of being abandoned by my parents, a tragedy certain to plunge me into absolute solitude of a kind I was more than capable of imagining. I never assumed that my mother...
View ArticleExcerpt: ‘Sex in the House’, by Adam Curley
The first time a boyfriend grabbed a T-shirt from the floor to clean up our cum, I felt my view of the world shift. I held it out away from me. ‘What should I do with this?’ I asked. He took it from me...
View Article‘Three Poems’, by Sophie Collins
Image by Jason Eppink. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. Anna KareninaEveryone has a futurebut some have more than othersLucia has made seven for herselfpails full...
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