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ISSUE NO. 16

November 2025

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Poetry

In My Cell

By

Bart

Bart writes from a prison in QLD.

Willy Pleasance

Here I sit inside my cell

Thinking to myself

Is this Hell

Cold and dark

with a terrible smell

I think it is

Only time will tell.

The Devil Himself

will visit me

if this is Hell

I'm yet to see

One things for certain

I yearn to be

living life so generously

please help me from this Darkness

I see

As the light will shine bright

So I Can See

Oh what a marvelous creation

The earth is to me.

Here I sit inside my cell

Thinking to myself

Is this Hell

Cold and dark

with a terrible smell

I think it is

Only time will tell.

The Devil Himself

will visit me

if this is Hell

I'm yet to see

One things for certain

I yearn to be

living life so generously

please help me from this Darkness

I see

As the light will shine bright

So I Can See

Oh what a marvelous creation

The earth is to me.

‘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