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Art by Lucinda Campbell Oil on canvas   *Note from Lot's Wife Editors, our website hosting service is having issues uploading artwork for Edition 4, Lucinda's artwork should be uploaded soon :)*   This oil painting depicts one of the tallest buildings outside of Melbourne’s CBD; the Box Hill Sky One building. This building was not only depicted due to its aesthetic visual appeal, but to symbolise Melbourne’s increasing urbanisation and population density that will continue into the future. As such, this work explores this magazine’s additional prompt regarding consideration of where the world is headed. The central placement of

Words by R. B. Sanders Content warning: discussion of sexual assault   I want to meet you again in your rescue Or in your shame It is never anything neutral I cannot conceive us having a mundane conversation Hello how are you the weather is nice do you still work at the pizza place no you don’t you live with your mother no I don’t anymore are your parents well I see you still drive your old car did you ever Get around to feeling guilty? Would you consider it as a Favour to me, an old friend? There’s a

Words by Tehseen Huq   As the days go by, I feel an ineffable mingling of fear and melancholy. I feel like I’m constantly staring at a rainbow partially obscured by mist on the other side. I long for gentleness, clarity, and tranquillity. I see my life in a rudimentary stage of evolution. Life disillusions me but I am condemned to navigate its treacherous landscape. Success is an amorphous silhouette far out of my reach. I am a distorted work in progress under the erroneous assumption of an accomplished life. Anxiety grips me tenaciously in its claws. Adulthood is an