Writing about: trying to write; reality or lack thereof; boy(s); driving down the coast; identity through nationality; the usual. Short pieces of writing, mostly. Photos. Cut and paste. Made with love and angst.

24 pages 15 cm x 10.5 cm

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...When I finally committed to making [this zine] I was in the midst of finding a new squat whilst couch-surfing, treating a bad case of headlice, recutting an entire new repartare of stencils, dealing with the never-ending headache of social workers and child safety and trying to settle back in Brisbane...

When I first moved to Brisbane I used to live in an adult medium to long-term shelter in the Valley about a year ago even though I was only 17. I shouldn't have been in there. So much fucked up shit happened to me there. But its made me who I am now, just like the rest of my past...

A one-off 'novella', It'll Be Morning is coarsely presented with rough, irregular guillotining of photocopied text-only pages and roughly bound by gaffa tape and jute string. It's contents are equally unrefined and raw, the powerful story based in Melbourne. One of the best novella/zines etc ever.

14 cm x 21 cm and over 150 pages.

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...I came to hate Wednesdays. The psychiatrist clinics were always held on a Wednesday afternoon and the clinics were always full. So there I would sit, behind a big plate glass window at my little computer while I had a waiting room of seriously mentally ill people with severe drug problems. To give a better idea of the centre that I worked at, it was basically the end of the line for receiving treatment. All the clients had been through the mainstream health services, and the mainstream services, fed up with difficult, violent and erratic clients, refused to provide them with service and referred them to us. There was only one more place down the line after us - a high security clinic for people who had physically threatened or attacked staff in other centres.

One particular Wednesday afternoon one of the regular clients came in for his psychiatrist appointment...

21 cm x 15 cm, 28 pages.

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