It had come two years after Covid. Nobody wore masks the second time round, nobody cared to flatten a curve. By the time people realised what it was, it was too late.
“The Next One”
G. A. Thresh
Through sickness, unethical scientific studies, or broken mirrors, there’s no need to worry you will forget the stories published in Banksia Journal! You can now buy and download Banksia Journal Quarterly Three: July – September 2024 and read offline. Available as both PDF and EPUB files, this ebook features short stories published in Banksia Journal during the third quarter of 2024.
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- Editorial by Brittany Lee
- “The Next One” by G. A. Thresh
- “Mock Turtle Soup” by Rachel Denham-White
- “Distressed Sale” by Penny Durham
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“Surely there’s something, some novel, where you’ve endlessly wondered what the food would taste like?”
“Mock Turtle Soup”
“Of course,” he replied without hesitation.
Rachel Denham-White
“The mirrors? What are they going to do, suck out my soul?”
“Distressed Sale”
“He reckons they can reflect more than, well, the outer you.”
Penny Durham
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