Miriam Webster’s fiction and essays have been published in Aniko Magazine, HEAT, Island, Overland, The Suburban Review, swim meet lit mag and certain zines. She is a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and her work has been recognised in major prizes including the Calibre Essay Prize, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the Olga Masters Short Story Award and the inaugural KYD Nonfiction Essay Prize. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne. The Slip is her first book.
For a moment you consider what could have been, concluding that the passion which once heaved inside you like a wave has now retreated, moon-drawn, from a shore that cannot hold it.
You have learned to use bright adjectives and dynamic phrasing. You are supposed to be poised and precise. You are supposed to write what you know. Well, what do you know? You know that love has always been the most compelling source of knowledge in your life.