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This month is the inaugural issue of Eatbooks. To celebrate we present 5 short stories by Krissy Kneen, Christopher Currie, N A Bourke, Romy Ash and Adrian Hallewell. You can read the stories directly from your browser or download a PDF to print.
Good People
by Krissy Kneen
There would be intimate conversations when the waters were calm. They would tangle about each other in the tiny boat of a bed and dangle their arms in the water, and let their hopes nibble their fingers.
Fingernail Moon
by Christopher Currie
The rest of the city is chewed by dreams, docile, forgiving of time's tics. Joseph's brow beads sweat. He feels the first winds of Wednesday.
A Feather on the Breath of God
by N. A. Bourke
During an idle winter Eloise had removed my left hand to repair it, replacing it temporarily with a wooden dummy.
Driftwood
by Romy Ash
So this was death, she thought, as she stacked cans of tomatoes onto the shelf. Crushed, with herbs, whole, roma. It was death, and she was 21.
The Best Friend
by Adrian Haliwell
The old man was having breakfast one morning, half-listening to the radio, when his dog came into the kitchen and told him he was crazy.
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