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Briny waves caress the shoreline. I hear the crash and fizz as we stroll towards the decaying jetty. I smell it before we get there, the cloying funk of dead things the ocean spat up like a fussy baby – leftover bait from amateur fishermen, seagull poo, tangled ropes of gelatinous seaweed. I tell Ramzy…

I was born of a dry clay, a clay that crumbles too easily. My family tried to mould me as a child but each time they tried I disintegrated under their fingers, stubborn and unforgiving. It wasn’t until I was eight that my father decided to use a little water, a little common sense, and…

The day I was prescribed antidepressants is also the day that I was pulled over by the police for being Victorian. Yup, I’m a reformed Melbournian. A born-again South Australian. I’ve knelt at the altar of St Nicola, I’ve been baptised in the river Torrens, I’ve broken bread from the Clarendon Bakery. While I have…

At school they knew me as ‘the girl who doesn’t talk’. At home I talked fine. I was ‘normal’. In fact, as number four of the six of us, I was probably the most animated and adventurous. But at school my voice just seemed to shut down. My silence was dismissed as severe shyness. But…

Melody and Harlow had always been the best of friends. As long as Mel could remember Harlow had always been by her side, encouraging her to take fun risks, supporting her to try new things, and making her feel safe. Mel was certain that they were going to be best friends forever, and knew she…

NURSE           To some it was just a job, they didn’t realise their conversations mattered more than medication. Martha, from the night shift, I will always remember. She’d play cards with me at midnight when I couldn’t settle my anarchic mind, swop my breakfast for ice cream if I won. She…