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Out Now: The Lifted Brow Digital Edition
The latest issue of the digital Lifted Brow is now available!In this issue: Oscar Schwartz tells us stories from Tinder; erotic fanfiction by Briohny Doyle; Sofjia Stefanovic plays with sex dolls; H.D....
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"Lady Chaffinch’s Lover (Adultery Isn’t Just For Upper Class Birds)", by...
It’s all about the birds and the bees, apparently. But given that female bees flee their natal hive to join a harem of males, then enslave their own daughters and spend their lives churning out babies...
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“Roman Tragedies: An Almost Live Review”, by Jane Howard
CORIOLANUS6:03 WarWe’ve barely begun and I am already aware of how ambitious it was to try to take detailed documentary notes while listening to Shakespeare in Dutch and following surtitles. Here we...
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"Hemmingway's Reductionism", by Simon Groth
He is still there, just where I last left him. Hemmingway is his name, the name I gave him. In the seven years we had been apart I’d pictured him in various stages of breakdown, from some mild damage...
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"Law School": advice on sex and relationships from Benjamin Law, his mum...
Hi Ben and Jenny!So my girlfriend came over the other night to have dinner with my folks for the first time. They really hit it off! My mum even asked her what perfume she was wearing. Now it’s a week...
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"The Three-Dimensional Yellow Man", by J.Y.L. Koh
Illustrations by Matt Huynh. It was only when a one-dimensional yellow man stepped out of a cinema screen and into a plush red theatre on George Street that audience members began to blink rapidly...
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“‘I DON’T SEE YOU BECAUSE I THINK YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE...
“‘I DON’T SEE YOU BECAUSE I THINK YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TRANSPARENT’: GLITCH AS CRITICISM”, BY DAN THORPE[helvetica 12] As artists, we often feel that what we are allowed to say is limited by our...
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"Fuck The Pain Away", by Briohny Doyle
"Apparatus I and Apparatus II". By Kasia Lynch.It’s not even lunchtime and I’m watching a young woman, naked except for nipple clamps, suspended upside down in a dark basement being fucked to the point...
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"Swipe Right: Stories from Tinder", by Oscar Schwartz
Illustration by Sara Drake. JoshThat night I went out to a club. On the dance floor I saw my friend Josh. He was dressed nicely in a blue and white striped shirt, black jeans and brown dress shoes. I...
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"Porn: A Review", by Sam West
Photograph by James Joel. I’m flattered to have been considered enough of an authority on furtive masturbation to be approached as a porn reviewer. I guess I must be. I certainly have the experience. I...
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"The Vulnerable Phoenix", by Adam Curley
Illustration by Lashna Tuschewski. 1. Not too long ago, at the end of the northern summer, I found myself visiting the locations of Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film My Own Private Idaho in Portland, Oregon. I...
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"Phone in Mouth": An Exclusive Web Feature by Leon Arnott
Photograph by Kevin Marsh. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence. It’s another Monday morning. You’re greeted by your favourite emotions: regret for a weekend ill-spent, heartbreak at...
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"Notes on Artworks I Fully Intend to Realise", by Rory Kennett-Lister
An installation that can be set up in any well-known gallery. The installation is all the artworks that are already there.A painting of The Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, but Jesus has a Dr Pepper™ in...
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Out Now: Digital Edition, Volume 6, Issue 1!
If you were a subscriber to The Lifted Brow’s Digital Edition, you would have received our latest issue—The Flashback Edition—last week.This issue is about...
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"Notes on Using Shampoo", by Rory Kennett-Lister
Image by Allen (Roadsidepictures). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence. Shake the bottle well before use.Wet hair thoroughly.Pool shampoo in palm, distributing evenly.Massage into...
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From the Archive: "Five Stories", by Sean Kilpatrick
Illustration by Luke Pickett. Varicose ByeI know my brother, quaint in a thousand rooms, accomplishing suicide, spread across his sheets like a venereal question, wounds aglitter. The note reads: ‘The...
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"Notes on Riding the Bus" and "Notes on Making Notes", by Rory Kennett-Lister
Image by Brad Smith (BugMan50). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence. Notes on Riding the BusDoors Bus Driver Vacant seatVacant seat Vacant seatVacant seatVacant seatVacant...
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Contributor of the Week browcontribs: Sam George-Allen is a...
Contributor of the Weekbrowcontribs:Sam George-Allen is a Brisbane writer, musician, and co-founding editor of online literary magazine Scum.Have a read of her piece 'I Put a Spell on You' in...
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Out Now: Digital Edition, Volume 6, Issue 2!
Many important things happened to your world overnight, but undoubtedly the most important one was the release of The Twelfth Edition: The Lifted Brow Digital Edition, Volume 6, Issue 2.In this...
View Article"Some people say that everything we do in life is ultimately in pursuit of...
“Some people say that everything we do in life is ultimately in pursuit of sex. But perhaps sex is a way to forget how rabidly life pursues us.” - Amy Gray explores the world of domestic BDSM in “Pain...
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