Stories - Journal

Funded by Copyright Agency, Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries, and our Founders Circle, Journal is an online column hosted on the Centre for Stories’ website showcasing writing by local, national, and international writers. The column includes stories of creative non-fiction about real personal experiences. Journal serves as an immediate response to the pandemic's effect on writers.

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CITIZENS OF THE WORLD by Robert Wood

'Covid matters, but it does not define us. Covid informed JOURNAL, but it did not define it. Covid is still here, but our city moves on just like us. Like one valence of identity, we are more than the sum of those parts.'
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SOME STRANGE LIGHT PARADE by Amy Lin

'Nowadays, the phrases ‘I miss my Mum’ and ‘I need my Mum’ are repeated across my thoughts like a wistful, urgent refrain. To think that when I was a child I just needed to cry to get to her, to think that I started my life enveloped in her body.'
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LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME by Tammy Bux

'Every single day, I witnessed a kaleidoscope of emotions bubble up inside of me. And it wasn’t just me. This was happening collectively to many people across the globe.'
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KWAY CHAP FOR ONE, NO INTESTINES by Simeon Neo

'Can I truly call myself a local even though I no longer live here? But neither can I call myself a Perthian. So what am I?'
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SUPPRESSED TRAUMA by Gisele Ishimwe

'It felt like all my badly nursed wounds were laid in the open for the world to see. I felt a certain level of vulnerability and a deep craving for mercy from strangers who seemed to struggle seeing my pain as relevant.'
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MELODRAMA, EXISTENTIALISM AND FINGERNAILS IN PARADISE LOCKDOWN by Tyrown Waigana

'I was chewing under my fingernails. Not biting them off, just picking under them with my teeth, and I was wondering if I was going to have a mini breakdown.'
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GOOD MEN DOING NOTHING by Rushil D'Cruz

'I sit in guilt and shame for knowing better and not acting, embarrassment that these moments I could have changed weigh so heavily upon me.'
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DANCING WITH AKSARA by Annaliza Bakri

'“Unprecedented times” is like a chant, a hymn of platitudes uttered to calm the soul, or a lie bleached beyond purity till we can’t tell its origins.'
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DEATH BY CHOCOLATE by Tiffany Ko

'Gingerly, I unclasp the diary and open to the first page. It’s titled: 2nd February 2003. And underneath: Today I had death by chocolate cake.'
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