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ISSUE 02
  1. Home
  2. Maisie Broadhead
  3. Avina Tarom
  4. Matte Dixon
  5. Maria Blackman
  6. Benjamin Shaw
  7. Maria Hill
  8. Jessica Fairburn
  9. Melinda Mo
  10. Izma Haider
  11. Haytham Trueheart
  12. Jack Farrugia
  13. Tim Loveday
  14. Charlotte Newman
  15. Kubra Iqbal
  16. Jason Bell
  17. Cas Hugo
  18. Sasha Hart
  19. Ned Forrest
  20. Scarlett Garland
  21. Phoebe Fleming
  22. Ashlee Palmer
  23. Victoria Lawson
  24. Aynie Lane
  25. Magnolia Yang
  26. Julia Twomey
  27. Annabella Tartaria
  28. E.M Bancroft
  29. Asli Idil Kaynar
  30. Anna Merlo
  31. J.R Haro
  32. Mitchell Bombolas
  33. Zoe Mott
  34. Leah Mustard
  35. Heather Wadeson
  36. Finn Newsway
  37. Alex Maclaren
  38. Sharyn Sale
  39. Sarah Birch
  40. Sofia Clarke 
  41. Em Tobin
  42. Zara Martins 
  43. Alex Cooper-Williams
  44. Brittany Bentley
  45. Kristen Flynn
  46. Kaine Green
  47. Phoebe Hancox
  48. MUNTZ.ED
  49. Ciarán 
  50. Mark Rowden
  51. Rose Miho
  52. Kiêu Anh Nguyên
  53. Bert Spinks
  54. Lauren Evans
  55. Sebastian Callum
  56. Anna Coppens
  57. Lorrie Anderson
  58. Catherine Maticka
  59. Sophia Crossing
  60. Britt Vonhoff
  61. Luka Smook
  62. Amy Davidson
  63. Jamie Riddell
  64. Rhys L’Hermite
  65. Rebecca Jacobson
  66. Emily Sherwell
  67. Andrew Potter

Benjamin Shaw


My grandpa used to claim that eating spinach would make me taller, but his suit pants are still too long for me now. He would say keep your eyes on the ball when I was looking up at his blue eyes instead. Later on, his decaying brain taught me there’s no such thing as a perfect blue. But still, I’ve looked for it outside my bedroom window, daring those dog years and never crying. Not even at his funeral (I kept my eyes on the pall). You ever think about what you’d do if you were buried alive? Me neither, unless you call regret a kind of dirt. What he forgot to tell me: take your time, or else you’ll lose eighteen years under your fingernails. The second time I watched Perfect Blue was déjà vu because the first time I was so wasted it became a dream. Now that’s a metaphor, like how you could probably sew something killer with my intestines, if only I stopped holding them in. Everyone I know has dreamt of losing teeth. Do we dream in metaphor, too? Eating more spinach could cure this. Everyone I know has dreamt of a blue wattle flower, but there’s only one of them left in the world.






























Perfect  Blue
By Benjamin Shaw Benjamin Shaw is a creative writing student from Naarm who loves the nighttime, his friends, and learning new words. 'Perfect Blue' is about feeling trapped in the sticky feeling of regret.




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