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ISSUE NO. 13

August 2025

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Poetry

Family Tree

By

Erin

Erin writes from a prison in Queensland.

Willy Pleasance

How would it be

To be set free

Yes, I’d smile with glee

No guilty plea

This system you see

Has broken my family tree

Taken my kids from me

Now under lock and key

A charge sheet like a shopping spree

Please just let me be

Forever you can’t keep me

Jail I’m waiting to flee

And reunite with my family

Stuff the system and BWCC

By Erin.

P.S. It breaks my heart the pain this system causes. I wish someone could make it better.

How would it be

To be set free

Yes, I’d smile with glee

No guilty plea

This system you see

Has broken my family tree

Taken my kids from me

Now under lock and key

A charge sheet like a shopping spree

Please just let me be

Forever you can’t keep me

Jail I’m waiting to flee

And reunite with my family

Stuff the system and BWCC

By Erin.

P.S. It breaks my heart the pain this system causes. I wish someone could make it better.

‘Love is Rebuilding My Life’

By Phillip

There’s irony, hypocrisy, fallacy, a vast ocean of distance to cross. The “saint”, the “sinner”, it’s lunacy, that the ignorant could save the lost.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

2 MIN READ

Methfairytale

By Karie

I’m not belle of the ball, not the very least, but we have something in common, I’m in love with a beast. But the beast is not a person but a drug that I call meth, I’ve been talking to myself for hours, I’m running out of breath.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

1 MIN READ

Nostalgia

By Dennis

Nostalgia is a gentle haze, a soft and fading, golden maze, where time itself begins to blur, and memory’s touch is sweet and pure.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 22

1 MIN READ

Art From Inside

By Lanie

Our team was blown away by this beautiful painting.

Creative

ISSUE NO. 21

1 MIN READ