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Senses Overload
Tanisha explores how shared memories shape one’s identity and a sense of belonging by reflecting on a past friendship. My...
Mar 24


Edible Plants of Sydney
Section Editor Kayleigh Greig urges you to enjoy the true Australian cuisine straight from your backyard. Your garden can be the biggest...
Mar 24


My Roots Beneath Two Skies
I tread softly on the place where my home stands, where eucalyptus trees whisper secrets in the wind and my spirit stands unafraid....
Mar 24
Roots and Remains
Recently I have found that my heart is split into two. Half of my heart belongs in Sri Lanka with the people who gave me life and raised...
Mar 24


Jakarta, 14 May 1998
Hello, I am writing this in Bahasa English because my professors keeping telling me this one is language of the future, and daddy agrees...
Mar 24


I am not from here
My ancestors were born in this dusty horse town, yet it is foreign to me. Straw, manure, and all those trees — eucalyptus mingled with...
Mar 24
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


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


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


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


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
Biomimicry
This story contains horror themes, including violence and gore. My car is absorbed into trailing tendrils of fog, the windshield...
Mar 2


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


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


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


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


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
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
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
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
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
Boop on the Nose
“Breaking news: planet Earth stopped rotating for approximately fifteen minutes this morning. T before the planet resumed rotation....
Jan 18
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
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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