| about this edition |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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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