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Volume 7 (2010) Tide Edition 7

Editors' Note
Literature has great power: in it we see ourselves reflected, and through it we can travel almost anywhere. Like a footprint, the impression of a good story w ill linger after the story itself has left us. In this edition of Tide, we contemplate desire and loss, confront addiction and sexuality. From the comfortable familiarity of Australian suburbia and rural communities, we travel across exotic landscapes and foreign cities to reach metaphysical planes and question reality. Finally, we return home. To contribute to the Tide legacy is a great privilege. The seventh edition stands as testament to all we have been able to achieve as a group in our past three years together, much of which would have been impossible w ith o u t the support that surrounds us. With much love and thanks, we welcome you to Tide 2010.

Contents
Arcadia Lyons - Frozen is cheaper - 1
Patrick McGowan - The fighter - 2
Madelaine Dickie - Mum's new boyfriend - 3
Vicky Validakis - I learn you in fragments - 5
Sarah Kella - Facial familiarity - 6
Lynne Cook - Touch - 7
David Cliff - It could be the same - 11
Adam Carr - Raisins optional - 14
Cathal O'Connell - The french girl - 16
Elisa Parry - Tangled II - 21
Amy Galea - My story will be cut short - 26
Paul Pearson - Genius loci - 29
Madelaine Dickie - A place to silently grieve - 30
Karina Brabham - Suburbia - 32
Karina Brabham - Outside a child is crying - 33
Kaitlyn Carlia - November 24th, 2008 - 34
Patrick Lenton - The neighbour herd - 36
Melanie Apps - Sinatra is dead - 38
Donna Waters - Oleander - 42
Gabriel Watts - Richard nixon - 45
Joel Ephraims - Road to groves - 46
Lia Sparks - In piazza san marco - 47
Gilly Grundy - Faces of strangers - 49
Gilly Grundy - The story I would have told, had I met you yesterday - 53
L Phillip Lucas - 'All these, all our meagre losses' - 54
Matilda Grogan - Emmanuel - 56
Madelaine Dickie - Once in varanasi - 59
Ramyana Reeves - Twelve cats - 61
Ruari Moran - The river amur - 65
Ryan Lusic - Foreign policy - 67
Vicky Validakis - Tribal-tattoo lover - 68
William English - Wig - 69
Arcadia Lyons - Confection - 73
Adam Formosa - Mangoes - 74
Sarah Massih - Of man - 76
Adam Formosa - Conversations with clem - 78
Keira Lykourentzos - Getting with the program - 80
Jessica Dendy - Audrey [uminoyami] - 84
Sean Curran - The nobody - 85
Matilda Grogan - Silence - 89
Kyra Bandte - Taking up space - 90
Bridget Lutherborrow - Homeward - 91
Acknowledgements - 92