Ibis House was an online literarararararary journal by Subbed In. In 2019 Ibis House ceased publication due to lack of funding. Since Ibis House has been archived, it is no longer maintained and as such some works might not display or function as originally published.
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Fiction ∙ "A naked woman, metaphor had taught me, was either a weakness or a strength. She might be a panther or a worm, depending on the book that you were reading, but a naked man just was, like a rock pool: as neutral as the Swiss."
Fiction ∙ "A friend’s father’s moonshine rearranges my insides, makes me vomit up the sun."
Poetry ∙ "The oldest woman warns me: tell him nothing. She / would know, her lips pulled tight by the gray thread of age.”
Poetry ∙ "While you mix with your wand hand, call up your preferred real estate blog with the other. Invoke the well-lit corners: the warm and untouched homes of northside, east, west, southside, and Grand Designs.”
Fiction ∙ "Dear Able-Bodied Nerd, I first suspected something was up when my cybernetic leg braces started playing “These Boots Are Made For Walking” by Nancy Sinatra every 100 steps I took."
Poetry ∙ "i don’t know the prime factors of 58 008 / but if you hold it upside down, you’ll see / i’ve written boobs on this calculator”
Fiction ∙ "The plate seems to have acted fairly, unlike my housemates."
Fiction ∙ "My heart’s encrusted with little wax hexagons crawling with the larvae of 300 past crushes"
Poetry ∙ "These are the embraces we must now put away: like regret-patterned china, / like a sense of order in a mass evacuation"
Poetry ∙ "We craft lattice / walls and lace them to brittle hedges. I tell you / it’s to stall the new winds"
Poetry ∙ "I live on borderlines and peripheries / A descendent of transference / and the welcoming of difference / An omnidirectional white light”
Interview ∙ We talk to writer Emily Crocker about poetry & eating yoghurt in the wind.
2 Poems by Zhi Yi Cham ∙ "i may only have two mouths, one for eating & the other / for this precise amount of ambiguous”
Review ∙ "It’s Anzac Day tomorrow & Christopher Pyne, really really wants you to peep his brand spanking new catalogue of war machines"
Fiction ∙ "Sometimes when I’m at a crossroads, or in an awkward conversation, or sometimes even when I’m struggling to fall asleep at 3AM doing nothing of significance at all, I let Demi Lovato guide my life choices."
4 Poems by Eloise Grills ∙ "Every plastic bag ever made still exists and so do you"
Video/Poetry ∙ "Outsourcing ourselves into boxes / swiping away guilt" 🔥
Poetry ∙ "I live Out West - in beauteous exile from suburban defilement - but I am summat-quite-thing fond of this Tiggr mess of a system. It glistens ridicurrous. Boing, boing, herp!"
Video/Poetry ∙ Through the exploration of an anti-narrative, Gillian Kayrooz's $KIMMED MILK offers a surreal expression of suburban identities and relationships.
3 Poems by Omar Sakr ∙ "I want you to know I have seen a thousand dinosaurs / on a barn floor, most of them an outrageous yellow / while some were black and all of course newborn / shifting from thick talon to thick talon chittering
Poetry ∙ "To the crips I love and who love me in return / from a distance or intimately close during / long nights where neither of us can sleep for pain / waiting for morning and the pain that morning brings / I am here for you"
Non-fiction ∙ "There is a boy I’m thinking of, who lived down the street from you, and it was very possible sometimes that you only made him live there because you imagined it."
Poetry ∙ "Cover up all the mirrors and don’t discuss frivolous matters in the presence of the body"
Fiction ∙ "How do you even begin to explain the concept of matrimony to a dog? The answer is you can’t."
Essay/Poetry ∙ "An uncovering or unveiling?"
Interview ∙ We talk to writer Aisyah Shah Idil about poetry and, umm, what fruit the core of the Earth would be if it had to be a fruit.