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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

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I saw a fin- ger loosen the zipper,the bag’s tan exterior animated by teeth.  Beneath knuckle-white shades, faces surfaced–witnesses in a waiting room.  Pareidolia...

By Isabella G Mead

Bellend

‘Nice little bell, buddy,’ snipes some guy holding  space in the bike lane as I nearly swipe him  on my way...

By Toby Fitch

hearth 

yes, one day, finally, it will all fall away  like all dead things  we will sit again by the campfire  story illuminating...

By Cheryl Leavy

Pyjama Man

Though he lives in a rundown unit above a busy intersection, the pyjama man imagines that the sounds of the traffic are the...

By Damian Balassone

Kale

In her arms she cradles the kale, knowing these are precious days. She stares down lovingly at the kale, who...

By David Stavanger

Palio De Siena

In the Tuscan city of Siena for seven hundred years  this annual race has run to settle rivalries between citizens of its seventeen...

By Jack Lio

Baba

A friend suggests a psychologist, but my grandmother was a house witch, her mother the thirteenth child of the thirteenth...

By Alyson Miller

upstart crowe

I was reading Shakespeare on my phone & then this rose started blooming   in front of me   as...

By Dominic Symes

Moonshot

in the tenth set he sent the tennis ball on  an interstellar galaxy quest, a sudden outburst  which seemingly served no...

By Johanna Bell

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