Explore the tender nature of a bitter life through original poetry, essays, criticism, and short fiction. Splinter's fourth issue spotlights new, compelling literary voices from across Australia and the world.

Featuring writing about:

- Kath Day-Knight’s menopause
- Doomscrolling technocracy
- Cannibalism aka fandom
- How the news is radicalising your neighbours – Nan-Gong Gong
- Why fish are people too
- Consent in the age of Joe Rogan
- The journey from Rafah to Gaza City
- Ozlit’s (everyone’s?) masculinity problem
- How we (the people) have killed all the fish
- Turbulence
- Great (gendered) expectations, told as a horror movie
- Returning to place
- Returning to your seat
- Returning to find everything has changed, everything has stayed the same.