#19 Echo Archives • The Suburban Review

The Void, July 2020

A gender-nonspecific figure sits beside a hole in the ground. They have dark complexion and white hair, tattoos of bats flapping on their right arm, a teal crop top, black pants. They hold a thin, tall, branch like a staff. Atop it is secured a repurposed radio antenna, evoking an ornament, and a small bird has perched itself on this. Around the hole by the figure’s feet are scattered a notebook, some envelopes, a pen, and a smart phone. On the screen is a single word balloon with the question mark symbol inside. A laptop sits at the opposite end of the hole, a “new-mail” alert dinging in the bottom corner. Next to it stands a mallard duck, casually looking across at the figure. From the hole three twisting, wispy word balloons rise from the darkness like smoke.

Cover art for The Suburban Review #19: ECHO by Icky Brothers.

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Blues

I remember making her laugh and how effortless it was. I write my sevens the way she wrote hers, with a line through the middle.

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Blood, Salt, and Fish Guts

Vince Ruston

Dad kept all the brutalities to himself, gutted the fish in the shed, made sure rock pools distracted my sister and me when he stabbed the fish through their skulls.

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Is Anyone Anonymous?

Jill Jones

My clothes avoid surveillance / I’m incongruent / and between algorithms

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Three Koori Love Songs

Luke Patterson

yes bub / the day will come / when we claim / what earth we’re heir

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An Event of Sighs

Nnadi Samuel

i chirp the sediments on my lips to know the business of dialects, /
& trade them on my skin like a lost groove.

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