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 Since Ibis House has been archived, it is no longer maintained and as such some works might not display or function as originally published.
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Non-fiction ∙ Poetry ∙ “The women on either side of me / offer me comfort in this lonesome city. / المدينة موحشة / سيدني”
Memoir ∙ “You can definitely see I am living my best autistic life right now.”
Poetry ∙ “swallowing watermelon seeds / my neon fingertips cannot press”
Poetry ∙ “Nails so long they reach satellites / At night, nobody”
Poetry ∙ “my voice is good / but most voices are good”
Poetry ∙ “There is a cockroach that flutters in and out behind the underworld of shelves and taste-tests the sudden atmosphere”
Fiction ∙ “No judgement, just a choice in place of no-choice.”
Poetry ∙ “All of this is ash & smoke / & what’s left is pure concentrated memes”
Poetry ∙ “cover my wounds with pictures of wounds”
Poetry ∙ “we can put our hoodies on without a problem”
Opinion ∙ “The public funding independent schools receive is a subsidy for the rich — a credit — and they don’t need it.”
Poetry ∙ “People who don’t see the value in small data / have never, obviously, been in love”
Poetry ∙ “I took the brains out of the clock with my bare hands.”
Fiction ∙ “But Michael Douglas’s face is hidden by the rings of Saturn.”
Memoir ∙ “It was hopeless, Catholic Boys see through straight drag.”
Memoir ∙ “I’m sorry that my dad now lives in your shed.”
Poetry ∙ fathima ∙ You Can't Hurry Love — 2016 Remastered — Hello, I Must Be Going!
Non-fiction ∙ “He sings the final line as ‘K歌之王 / 係我’ (“The karaoke king is me”) instead of ‘K歌之王 / 是我’ as it is on the record. Hearing this, I finally see the story, like removing the scaffolding to reveal the building behind.”
Poetry ∙ “I am sinking into my mattress again, / eating my own words / licking a dirty monitor.”
Non-fiction ∙ Memoir “Never on bone, I repeated to myself as I plugged you into the socket and turned you on.”
Poetry ∙ “it takes two trans people / to sext”
Non-Fiction ∙ “The paddocks are endless and fertile and full of secret shrapnel.”
2 Poems ∙ “I want you to draw me like one of your French swirly bread things”
Poetry ∙ “Afraid? / Yes, in the shattering of oil”
The ‘most read’ pieces from Ibis House 2k18.
Poetry ∙ “I rise at 4am every morning and start my day by having rich parents.”
Poetry ∙ “They all look spectacular together, maybe even—dare I say—Instagram worthy / There are surely other things / that matter.”
Essay ∙ “Her impact on the lives of sex workers and trans people cannot be overstated.”
