Author
Ephiny Gale
Ephiny works as a theatre maker, writer, and arts manager in Melbourne, Australia. Her fiction has appeared in Silver Blade, Fried Fiction and Silver & Green Magazine, and is forthcoming in Postscripts to Darkness. More info at ephinygale.com.
Last Text
Mikala Godfrey receives the final texts that people send before they're murdered. She has a shrine for this in her house; a smartphone on a stand, from where she copies the texts into a series of identical leather notebooks. She calls this 'keeping witness.' She kneels before…
Experience
I examine the girl across the table. Well dressed, in that way that seems to afflict young people, where the sleeves of the suit jacket have been properly tailored but still give the vague impression of playing dress-up. Glasses. I wonder if they're cosmetic, to try and blend…