A E Macleod

is a writer whose fiction has most recently appeared in The London Magazine, New Australian Fiction 2022, Granta online and Island magazine.

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Culture December 13, 2025

People like us

“Under the rusty annexe that must once have belonged to something else, that is held together with cobwebs and ribbons, we don’t mean to mention dead mother but we do. Dead mother, who aren’t in heaven, we say in unison, in deep voices as if …”

Culture October 21, 2023

Not the next day, not a month later

“The red bike sat on the median strip with a placard tacked to it. Police aware, it read. The bike was a Kawasaki and Astor had owned one just like it years ago. The night he crashed it, Astor was on his way to a friend’s, a girl he’d …”

Culture September 20, 2025

Is it for sale, the bird?

“I came across the painting of the eagle by chance. It was hanging in the display window of this gallery I sometimes visit and a small group of children were standing on the footpath pointing at it. It’s like it’s going to die, one of them …”

Culture August 05, 2023

But what’s it for?

“So once I came across a bird trapped inside a large blue cage and I was struck immediately by several things. The bars were the same blue as Yves Klein’s Blue Monochrome. I had a particular penchant for Klein and knew the shade immediately. …”

Culture June 24, 2023

A boy like Tommy Sloane

“Tommy Sloane was a wee thing and when he was born, they called him little gumnut because his whole head was hard like a stone and they couldn’t find the spot where you were supposed to be able to stick your finger clean through his skull, as if …”