A E Macleod

is a writer whose fiction has most recently appeared in New Australian Fiction 2022, Granta online and Island magazine.

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Culture October 21, 2023

Not the next day, not a month later

“The red bike sat on the median strip with a placard tacked to it. Police aware, it read. The bike was a Kawasaki and Astor had owned one just like it years ago. The night he crashed it, Astor was on his way to a friend’s, a girl he’d …”

Culture June 24, 2023

A boy like Tommy Sloane

“Tommy Sloane was a wee thing and when he was born, they called him little gumnut because his whole head was hard like a stone and they couldn’t find the spot where you were supposed to be able to stick your finger clean through his skull, as if …”

Culture August 05, 2023

But what’s it for?

“So once I came across a bird trapped inside a large blue cage and I was struck immediately by several things. The bars were the same blue as Yves Klein’s Blue Monochrome. I had a particular penchant for Klein and knew the shade immediately. …”