Tag: The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
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Mya Hicks – I’m Beginning to Think Differently of You – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
On Saturday nights, we have dinner at a restaurant she selects from a list on her phone of Trivago’s Top Places to Eat Out in our city. This is our thing, our couple’s thing. In the bathroom mirror, I watch her reflection sweep black liner across her glossy eyelids as I struggle to gel…
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Matilda Reid – Crepe Paper – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
‘I can see all of Sydney from up here. It’s fucking beautiful, Mum!’ were the last words my son would speak to me. Or shout, rather, from the top of the Norfolk Pine. Then would come the creek and snap of its tallest branches, the thumping of my heart, and the thud of his body,…
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John Raison – a work of fiction – TTPAPC 2022
I’m sitting at the window seat on the lower level of a train, caked in layers of clothing like strata. I’m early but the train was already here getting cleaned, and they said I could sit inside to keep out of the chill. It’s frozen and dark out there, with the dingy station’s lights not…
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Anna Krywyj – on tutankhamun – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
unfurling the plastered papyrus of a dead little girl guffawing; what novelty! gripping her dislodged jaw gnashing her teeth together – look at her laugh the scarab beetle ‘round her neck glistens then gone; plucked with manicured fingers threaded through a silver chain and placed atop the corseted chest of shrieking opera-goer …
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Cameron Ling – Despedida – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
at the bottom of stairs I am waiting big stupid grin splayed across face it’s your lunch break (or the end of an early day) …
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Linda Godfrey – Poems from a Notebook – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in Queensland. Turn the page for 13/8 Habossem St; Egem Pension, Kemalyeri, Cannakkale; the Fedriades Hotel in Delphi – don’t make me fly home; the vistas to the Gulf of Corinth from…