Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013 · Uncategorized Marrickville Fiona Wright Later that night, I cut the plastic boning from the bodice of my dress: no need for structure, over summer. There were bruises on my knees I didn’t recognise. I saw us all that day, all day projected on a big screen: the bathtub underneath the orange tree, crushed grass imprinted on my shins, your cat-like eyeliner, the warm sangria out of mugs. My feet grew numb beneath my hips. Saturation. I still felt overseen when I walked home, alone and shouldered. A black light flicked behind a balcony, a woman, neon-lit, crushed out a cigarette and turned to kiss, to give a kiss. This wasn’t meant to sound like romance. But it’s not ironic, either. Fiona Wright Fiona Wright’s new essay collection is The World Was Whole (Giramondo, 2018). Her first book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for nonfiction, and her poetry collections are Knuckled and Domestic Interior. More by Fiona Wright › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 22 May 202422 May 2024 · Television A science of pain: The Bear and the masculine domestic Scott Hudson Bourdain embodied the “masculine” chef: stoic, expert, and weathered through abuse. This ideal is present throughout pop cultural understandings of the commercial kitchen, represented on television series, movies, and reality tv. Most recently they’ve found themselves demonstrated in Christopher Storer’s The Bear. 20 May 202420 May 2024 · Editorial statement Concerning open letters Editorial team Overland is aware of reports regarding the addition of a false signature on a petition we’ve published in support of Australian University students’ right to protest—what others might call their freedom of speech. We have since deleted the name of a journalist at the request of the ABC, following the publication of defamatory statements by […]