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.
Bellend
‘Nice little bell, buddy,’ snipes some guy holding space in the bike lane as I nearly swipe him on my way...
Blackheath mating rituals
Clouds ripple, sunshine splashes, a white dove tests its wings. Bella and Houdini are hanging clothes on the line of the...
hearth
yes, one day, finally, it will all fall away like all dead things we will sit again by the campfire story illuminating...
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...
Kale
In her arms she cradles the kale, knowing these are precious days. She stares down lovingly at the kale, who...
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...
Baba
A friend suggests a psychologist, but my grandmother was a house witch, her mother the thirteenth child of the thirteenth...
upstart crowe
I was reading Shakespeare on my phone & then this rose started blooming in front of me as...
Moonshot
in the tenth set he sent the tennis ball on an interstellar galaxy quest, a sudden outburst which seemingly served no...
The trouble with eternity
I had a dream about the afterlife: I died quite unexpectedly Although it is, of course, to be expected, And I materialised...
Moon man
After Elizabeth Venn He circles the room five times, refusing to believe he’s resistible. I tell myself I won’t tilt for his...
Aca-lyte
Che Guevara is white and wearing a shirt with his face on it, mansplaining Derrida or Adorno a hat like your...
