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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.

Expectation Valley

As you rein in your bronc on the high ridgeoverlooking Hadleyville or Pobrecito or Wranglerit is coming on dusk...

By Bruce Dawe

Coffee at Coledale

you escape from home during a real estate inspection,a table outside chedo's  special: croatian spit roast.focused on perfection, you adjust...

By Julie Chevalier

Settling

Outside and the blue below,the forming and vanishing slits of white:the Pacific Ocean. Always that momentdeep into the fifth...

By Heather Taylor Johnson

Sorry Rocks

At Uluruthe postman returns rocksthat look like they’ve beenchipped off a sunset.They arrive in padded bags,shoeboxes, take-away containersfrom all...

By Anna Krien

Circumstances

Lee Miller's Famous FotoShe was in the bathbeautifully readywhen the phone rang.Her boots, bloodedwith the mud of Auschwitz,stood to...

By CK Stead

Barry

Ringing on a Sunday yourLondon doorbell holding the bookour friend Max insistsyou must have by handI find you like...

By CK Stead

Missing persons

Peacetime or warthere are deserters to round up,warrants to be issuedby the clerk of rules. In the riotless cityof fashionable...

By Craig Sherborne

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