A Flight of Fancy by Josiane Behmoiras
An excerpt from HEAT 21 A voice of honey announced the names of destinations as if those places were towns in Utopia. Quimper, Nantes, Bordeaux, La Rochelle…I was running late, jostling amid the...
View ArticlePanama, A Pantomime by John Bryson
An extract from HEAT 22 General Noriega’s portrait stood on the hotel bar, his cap crusted with laurels, stars the length of his epaulets, his cheeks pocked and grainy. The camera had caught him...
View ArticleNew Gold Mountain by Michelle Moo
An extract from HEAT 22 Inside, the surface of the dresser, a comb up in fine loose hairs, a dry fine heat disintegrating the lace of the curtains. Outside, out past the fences, there’s the road that...
View ArticleThe Tragic Orientalist by Barry Hill
An extract from HEAT 22 The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. These beautiful lines were written by Ezra Pound in 1913, when he first set out to write in a...
View ArticleYou Have the Right to Remain Silent by Justin Clemens
An extract from HEAT 23 ‘To behold suffering gives pleasure, but to cause another to suffer affords an even greater pleasure.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Every woman adores a Fascist,’ wrote Sylvia Plath...
View ArticleBashful City by Peter Doyle
An extract from HEAT 23 Like most Sydneysiders, I was brought up to take a quiet pride in the city’s legendary raffishness, a defining theme, running from the days of the Rum Corps to the razor gangs...
View ArticleI See You by Steven Amsterdam
An extract from HEAT 23 Alek was out on the front steps all by himself, waiting for them. ‘Greetings, cousins!’ he shouted to the rusted red Corolla as it pulled up. He held a glass of milk over his...
View ArticleEditorial by Ivor Indyk
An extract from HEAT 24 Though there is always the possibility of a return, this will likely be the last issue of HEAT magazine in print form. After fourteen years of continuous publication the sheer...
View ArticleFairy Death by Gillian Mears
An extract from HEAT 24 Before sitting at my desk I walk outside. Almost full moon and the wild winds of the South Australian spring of the last few days have gone. I look up at the clouds this evening...
View ArticleThe Voice Inside of You by Carrie Tiffany
An extract from HEAT 24 Brett and Jodie live up at house, I live in the shed. When I got here Brett showed me pictures from Agriculture. There are three problem species – corellas, galahs and...
View ArticleThe Gospel According to Brian by Peter Craven
An extract from HEAT 21 On Brian Matthew’s Manning Clark: A Life ‘We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there...
View ArticleOld World Charm by Michael Sala
An extract from HEAT 20 At some point before he drops out of my life, my father and I have a conversation. I’m a child, maybe five years old, swinging a hammer through the air, and he asks what I’m...
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