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Jo Withers

Jo Withers writes short fiction from her home in South Australia. Her work has featured in Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, No Contact, and XRAY, among other places. Her pieces have won prizes at SmokeLong Quarterly, Molotov Cocktail, Reflex Press, and Retreat West.
Varying Degrees of Dead

Varying Degrees of Dead

The Lifeline operator refuses to take my call when she realises I’m already dead. I tell her my name, and she looks up my file. She sounds angry, tells me to hang up, says she’s in the business of helping the living. I...

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Origami

Origami

It is impossible to fold the same piece of paper seven times. 1. You wrote inside the lines. Your textbooks neat, unmarked, while ours were brazen with graffiti.  Sometimes, I sat next to you when I came in late....

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