Saturday, 15 June 2024

'Portals' by Jane O'Sullivan

The cat had discovered a portal to another world, tucked behind the neighbour’s shed. He kept bringing home strange things: jellyfish, gobbets, possibly an arm. She wrapped the bits in paper and put them in the bin. Some wars start as easily as that, with a sigh.



Jane O'Sullivan is an Australian writer. Her fiction and art writing have been published in Meanjin, Passages North, Going Down Swinging, Vault, Litro, Art Monthly, Art Guide and FlashFlood 2022. Her work has also won the Rachel Funari Prize and Joanne Burns Microlit Award, and been included in the Spineless Wonders anthologies Pulped Fiction and Play.

'Portals' was first published in Pulped Fiction: An Anthology of Microlit, edited by Cassandra Atherton, Spineless Wonders, 2021.

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