POETRY & SHORT FICTION

POETRY

“All I see is dark. All I feel is ache. All I hear is a roar.
All I smell is blood rushing through my veins.
I am a foggy, mindless force, rushing, rushing, rushing
Nowhere.
Who I am wanes, while this nothingness strains
Against, and into, the dark.
And I am human no more.”

~ JJ Carpenter

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SIDESHOW SOULS

Winner of the 2025 Global Tiny Terror Competition

Finalist in the 2025 Aurealis Awards

No one knew where the sidehow came from. No one knew who was the first to find it, or when. All the people of Ironbark Town knew, was that those who ventured inside, rarely returned. The rules at its rotting gates spoke of choice... but the townsfolk had learned over the generations that there were more rules to this eerie place than those which were angrily carved across its gate.

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