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Category: Fiction

We Need a Pianist
CULTURE Fiction Prose

We Need a Pianist

January 24, 2024January 22, 2024 Shay Keats

I arrive at the Pavilion at 7:30pm in my best maroon suit. Stressing about my fingers. I’ve parked, engine’s off. Unfurl my fingers, staring,

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creepy, horror, horror issue, Prose, short story
Nigredo
CULTURE Fiction Prose Prose

Nigredo

December 10, 2023 Trung Ho Huynh

Truong wakes up to the sound of his phone ringing, unwilling to touch it. He tries to ignore the sound and turns his body

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Hold the Note
Fiction Prose

Hold the Note

December 7, 2023 Adrienne Slattery

It’s late morning, and the paterfamilias has donned his formal attire. The toga cloaking the loose folds of his chiton is blue with a

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creative, Creative writing, Prose, short story, UOW, Writing
Bad Boys Get the Dark
Fiction Prose

Bad Boys Get the Dark

December 6, 2023 The Tert

By Jacob Wood When the Dark was in control, Lester had little idea of his surroundings; could see nothing but shifting shadows. For brief

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Creative writing, horror, horror issue, Tertangala, Writing
WE ARE ALL BEETLES – Jacob Wood
Fiction Uncategorized

WE ARE ALL BEETLES – Jacob Wood

September 11, 2023September 11, 2023 The Tert

     All morning he twined the coarse rope through his hands. But now he was just trying to ignore the agonising thudding beneath the angry

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Beetles, Contest, Jacob Wood, Prose, Writing
Cameron Ling – Sarcasus Sarcmus Behishd – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
CULTURE Fiction

Cameron Ling – Sarcasus Sarcmus Behishd – TTPAPC 2022 Prose

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 The Tert

         The first time I visited Sarcasm the guy at the gate checking ID cards told me I wasn’t weak enough

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Prose, The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
Fiction Poetry

David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 The Tert

The love of blue and redness, No green nor minor greys. Of ordered seats and houses Is in your veins ablaze, Strong love of

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The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
Fiction Poetry

Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 The Tert

From the moment our eyes first met, Until your last dying breath, Never could I have foretold, What warmth you brought from the cold.

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The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
Mya Hicks – I’m Beginning to Think Differently of You – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
Fiction

Mya Hicks – I’m Beginning to Think Differently of You – TTPAPC 2022 Prose

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 The Tert

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

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Prose, The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
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