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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.

New Scientist

A body we can read and understand. If only I could put you under a microscope and transform you into a symbol to unite our disciplines: the communication phage.

By George Cox

Antecedent

Between one end of the gap and the other the gravity of our gaze can but scratch like banksias  at your fingertips before starlight splits the present  across his teeth into pearl and lime stanzas.

By Stuart Cooke

Medea – towards the end

She wanted to confuse the staff and brings in a pebble from the garden as suggested, placing it into the pocket of the man in the next room.

By SJ Finn

Rare

There are many ways to carry a story. My father smothered his stories with bravado. Here he is, laughing at the sea drenching him on the deck.

By Andy Jackson, Angela Costi

A Little Box 

And didn’t I grant you  six identical faces, each perfectly plain as the other  and a sturdy mouth to clasp shut?

By Debbie Lim

Lesbian search terms

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By Rebecca Jessen

Run River: An exercise

Little space in this town for dead game. Steal a teal Corvette, hit the drive-in, Find the tatty shop. They serve a fish dish.

By Liam Ferney

Vaudeville

If the magical colours aren’t even across the page, it’s a failure of art according to aesthetes. An obscenity of blues and reds, they say.

By John Kinsella

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