

EDITORIAL
#26 Editorial
Amongst the reliefs felt after the result of the recent Federal election was a little sprinkle on top: we wouldn’t have to publish this celebratory issue of TSR into a world where no cause for celebration could be plausibly conceived.
POETRY
the stars are posing, no they’re not
Pisces—are you a pillow i can sink my oily f / orehead into? my mother didn’t spit me out of her vagina perfect / but all the jobs i apply for ask me to be superhuman.
I Despise Communism / Time is a Blah
Tainted that second night, the other you. Rigid. Which is exactly what. Self-indulgent. You don’t want.
we / into the woods
lizard in the corner languid lick of /
scales we’re on loop unsteady /
ready to leap but not to fall
Departures
And the awkward gestures of having asked to touch, slowly, /
and then the touch, less slow, dissolving the questions in those first gestures
The See-Through Friend
Then I rose from the pool, told God I needed to leave. / I walked across His jarrah floorboards without a towel. / We have no chemistry, I said.
FICTION
The Magic Act
It takes a kind of callous discipline to keep a place at such a studied level of derelict. That is the requisite of teleportation: you need to know your destination.
NON-FICTION
Queer Revelry
His love for fostering community was motivated by a deep-seated desire to uproot the church, pull it apart and use the pieces to carve out space for queer people.
ART & COMICS
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.


