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you i mourn like plants mourn their roots
June warm and summer hazy when she returns to visit it’s somehow worse that she recognises it ...
Mar 24, 2025


Apricot Sprites
the wind, of course, blows, the green grass sways, the white clouds float on by. you know this, and you watch anyway. somewhere else,...
Mar 24, 2025


On The Park Jetty
Sitting on the park jetty, waiting for Saffa — who probably wouldn’t be on time if the date took place in her bedroom — I found myself...
Mar 24, 2025


The Hope We Look Towards
Imogen had only bought the test this morning, but she had been waiting for the results for weeks, counted by heartbeats she couldn’t hear...
Mar 24, 2025


The Causeway Giants Who Gifted Pebbles
The car rolled to a stop on the crunchy gravel path. Billy's mum had driven all the way up to the last shop on the main road, halfway up...
Mar 24, 2025
Biomimicry
This story contains horror themes, including violence and gore. My car is absorbed into trailing tendrils of fog, the windshield...
Mar 2, 2025


Why Does it Feel Like Home?
News writer Amisha Piplani reflects on Australia’s beauty and even why continents apart from her family, Australia has become her new...
Mar 2, 2025


Diabetes Down Under
Niamh McGonnell-Hall, who lives with Type 1 Diabetes, gives a crash course on Australian and NSW Diabetes Resources. (This is not...
Mar 2, 2025


Ancestry Adventures: How to Hack Your Family History
For Features Writer Vanessa Bland, a casual interest in family history turned into a full-blown obsession. When not researching family...
Mar 2, 2025


Sick of Losing Souls
News Section Editor Beth Nicholls explores the painful loss of past friendships and carrying the weight of those memories. I have spent...
Mar 2, 2025


An Iconic Start To The Decade: Y2K's Sydney Olympic Games
News Section Editor Beth Nicholls takes us back in time to 24 years ago, where Sydney welcomed Y2K with the iconic Summer Olympics Sydney...
Mar 2, 2025
The Monkeypox Outbreak: A Story of Disease within the Colonial Lens
The Monkeypox outbreak in Africa was announced by the World Health Organisation as a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’...
Mar 2, 2025
It’s Metron: New Sydney Metro Line Extension Officially Opened
Need the lowdown on all the little Metro facts you may have missed? Section Editor Beth Nicholls has you covered! First opening in May...
Mar 2, 2025
I gained sentience to Toxic by Britney Spears
Amy Condren recalls her awakening. I will never forget the first time I heard ‘Toxic’ by Britney Spears. Too young to enrol in classes, I...
Jan 18, 2025
Something More
“I didn’t think you would come.” Samira’s heart trips over itself at the familiar voice and she whirls around. Theo is much taller now...
Jan 18, 2025
Boop on the Nose
“Breaking news: planet Earth stopped rotating for approximately fifteen minutes this morning. T before the planet resumed rotation....
Jan 18, 2025
Safe & Sound
I have this plush cat I got when I was one, Still sitting on my bed, Guard duty never done. A shelf of painted figurines Of Voronetz and...
Jan 18, 2025
To Remember Is to Be Haunted
Jordan Maree embraces all their memories, despite the haunted house that restlessly taunts their mind. When our memories are vessels for...
Jan 18, 2025
The Denim Skirt
Hear Tasmin Slender’s ode to the humble denim skirt as she relives her own ‘Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants’ moment. Going to uni...
Jan 18, 2025
Digitising my high school diaries
Casper Cunneen reflects on rereading and rewriting high school poems, and takes readers on a journey through their teenage years. I’m a...
Jan 18, 2025


Trap (2024): A ‘Crispy’ New Horror Favourite and the Ultimate Girl-Dad Movie
Deputy Editor Zaynab Khuder gives us a review on why Trap is not just another strong, experimental offering from M. Night Shyamalan but...
Jan 18, 2025
baby dracula
baby dracula, your mother’s womb is hollow. you spawn in utero out of godly lust — mother fashions herself saint mary. only an evil god...
Jan 18, 2025
there is a werewolf who stalks the woods
he is no more man than he is wolf when he is hungry he feeds digs his fangs and bares his teeth it’s all the same two sides — sedis...
Jan 18, 2025
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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