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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SHARE, HOLD, KNOW by Kirli Saunders

'I’ll share the Dreaming, as it was told to me, so that our babies can be true to Mother, themselves and Community, so that their hearts can be full.'
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SUSPENDED BETWEEN TWO NOTHINGS by Susie Anderson

'I told myself I wasn't moving to leave heartbreak behind, the heartbreak was in the leaving itself.'
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CANDY, AN EXCERPT by Esther Vincent Xueming

'After moving out, I experienced a sensation of fragmentation that I never felt before. An unreal sense of existing in two separate places, of belonging and not belonging wholly to each space.'
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LANGUAGE BARRIER by Raf Gonzalez

'Being raised bilingual, language was one of the main ways I expressed my comedic self; but as I lost my fluency in Spanish, my vibrancy regressed and I became isolated.'
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THE PERSON WHO SITS IN THE MIDDLE by Ati Aziz

'When a close friend asked me why I still wear my hijab when I no longer believe, I gave him a terse answer every time. “I’m just doing it for my family.”'
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THE NESTING DOLLS by Luisa Mitchell

'The stories were passed down from one woman to another, and through them, you could still feel the embrace of someone who came before you; from here, from within yourself, the Mother said.'
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MUM'S VOICE by Vivienne Glance

'I didn’t realise it at the time, but these were more than mere words, they were a window into how she lived in the world.'
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TO LEAVE IS TO BE GENTLY PULLED BACK by Chris Lin

'Maybe there’s something in the act of return where you’re not just retracing your steps. You’re folding back on time too.'
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FRACTURE by Alexander Te Pohe

'in the sleepless hours i look out my window, wishing on a star nestled between tree branches. i ask the star to heal me. in reply, it blinks out.'
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