For all the many thousands of words that make up the twelfth volume of :etchingsmelb, there is one word that perfectly sums it up: eclectic. The latest iteration of the literary journal skips merrily from the collage of Australiana that is the opening short story by Simonne Michelle-Wells, ‘Under a Dreaming Sky’, all the way…
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When I was first introduced to the desirable Christian Grey, I admittedly was taken with the character’s ‘smoky gray eyes’ and ‘rich boy’ mystique but by the end of chapter one, I was already irritated with my protagonist’s self-deprecating diatribe and constant reference to her battling subconscious or rather, her ‘inner goddess.’ By chapter two,…
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