Talie Helene

Claws
it’s got it’s claws in you
you’re powerless to stop it
you won’t admit it’s true
but you’re powerless to stop
it’s got you telling lies
to the ones who really love you
wearing your old disguise
only fooling yourself
you run with brothers of the grave
you cling to others so enslaved
while damsels of design
are playing with your mind
you’re open to all kinds
’cause [...]

Driftchamber Crazy
driftchamber crazy
falling fast tonight
draftchamber hazy
wishing I was blind
your photographs
are epitaphs
for my hope
my home
my heart
drinking down tonight
in the arms of false solace
I don’t want his name
he gives me no promise
is it denial,
or is it regret?
my heart disdains me
for breaking, I guess
and acres of flesh
seeking reprise
at any address
naked with crying
or wrapped up in sighing
choose between
the gutter
choose [...]

Tradie Girl
They say that you covert what you see,
& he saw you every day.
So you sent him photos of your flabby arse
In your best lingerie.
You know that he describes you
As very unattractive,
With a head like a hat full of arseholes.
Pasty face, chipped teeth, mouse hair
A body-shape distinctly pear -
Your tits flopping loose in your overalls!
You’re [...]

Riftchamber
It must have been a light thing
Although my heart is heavy
It must have been a cheap fling
Don’t say I’m not as strong as I seem
I needed all your fire
To keep me from the cold
All my heart’s desire
Is drifting in the smoke
It must have been a light thing
For all it was breathtaking
And though my hands are [...]

Sparklebomb
How I dearly love your honest hands
So strong and broad, so warm and gentle
When I place my brow against your brow
When we get this close it feels like flying
She said, “I like you like this –
When we’re so close, we’re out of focus.”
She said, “I love you like this.”
He said, “Blurry?”
She said, “Shining like a [...]

Phoenix Introspection
love of my life
wherever you are
I’m lost, and I’m not safe
I do not know
which way to go
to rescue myself from myself
here in the cage
I made of my broken wings
nursing my heart in the ashes
my introspection
every reflection
all of the thousand things
I couldn’t say
but what does it matter to you, anyway?
when I was pure
or before I [...]

False Alarum
all I hold as sacred, is sacred
all I hold as sacred, is sacred
all I hold as sacred
has fallen by the way
scatter the auguries
cast the temples into the sea
blind all the oracles
for the stars in the heavens
are lying to me
and all I hold as sacred
has fallen by the way
the heart that you discarded
the dreams you [...]

Brimstone Press are turning the spotlight on the musicians who donated their beautifully dark and confronting songs and video clips to the Multimedia Anthology Black Box, a fundraiser for the Australian Horror Writers Association.

Named after a Ray Bradbury novel, Dandelion Wine are a Melbourne duo exploring a territory they describe as ‘ethereal post-dreampop’. Naomi Henderson [...]

For Immediate Release

Black Box is the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Shadow Box charity e-anthology (Brimstone Press, 2005). Going even further than the preceding release, Black Box is a comprehensive interdisciplinary dark arts release, as editor Shane Jiraiya Cummings explains.
“Shadow Box had sound effects, but at the time I wanted to do more. I had literature, [...]