It’s a sight to behold, that slick of teenagers commuting home from the beach. All salt-encrusted eyelashes and lobstery shoulders, screeching like a murder of crows.
Time travelling. My youth—I can almost reach out and touch it.
The train window reflects my denuded reality… but I’m still 1985 inside!
Gabe has been writing and editing for 30 years, from her home base in Sydney, Australia. She doesn’t plan on being replaced by AI any time soon.
I want to climb behind his eyes. To crawl on my belly over enemy lines and see the shelling for myself.
Noetic civil war—red rain of spitfire sky; ground assaults below.
What chance does love have in his wartime mind?
Wait.
It’s…
a flag unfurling, bleached, bloody.
He surrenders.
Gabe has been writing and editing for 30 years, from her home base in Sydney, Australia. She doesn’t plan on being replaced by AI any time soon.
I’m obsessed with Japan. I can’t help it! Like a junkie angling for a fix, I scan, watch, wildly make spreadsheets.
Shinkansen. Shinjuku. Shibuya!
The Duolingo owl, neon green, chirrups a command. O’cha kudasai! I sing obediently.
My son laughs, rolls his eyes, knowing our travels will be organised chaos.
Gabe has been writing and editing for 30 years in Sydney, Australia. She finds travelling an endless source of writing inspo. (Her son is not so sure.)
Every morning when I peer around the door frame, your slumbering teen body is a new shape.
A toppled Roman statue, all broken limbs and alabaster skin.
A wild dog in the desert, curled hard against the midnight elements.
A man emerging; Michelangelo’s Davide.
My love for you is incandescent.
Gabe has been writing and editing for 30 years, from her home base in Sydney. She doesn’t plan on being replaced by AI any time soon.
I watch his mouth open and close like a Kohaku koi
while a tsunami of red caps worship their charismatic leader.
My son and I head out into the sun.
Unironically, he buys a copy of 1984.
Underneath a sprawling eucalypt, tears sting my eyes for the world he’s inheriting.
Gabe Bonney has been writing and editing for 30 years, from her home base in Sydney, Australia. She doesn’t plan on being replaced by AI any time soon.