Published in Overland Issue 211.5: Winter fiction · Uncategorized Issue 211.5: winter fiction Emily Laidlaw Contents Emily Laidlaw − Editorial Fiction Kristin Hannaford The direction of sunlight Melissa Howard Other people’s daughters Kelli Lonergan If friends were lovers too Samuel Rutter The sort of things he might say about me Emily Laidlaw Emily Laidlaw is an editor and writer based in Melbourne. Her articles and reviews appear regularly in The Big Issue and Readings Monthly and on Killings. She is a former member of Voiceworks’ editorial committee and currently works as marketing coordinator at Kill Your Darlings. More by Emily Laidlaw › 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 19 April 2024 · Friday Fiction Stilted J.E “Mahal” Cuya One hour after midnight. Everyone in rooms. Living room – dark. Table look like monsters. Like death. TV on stand. Netflix Logo. No one watching. Residents asleep. They have dementia. 18 April 202418 April 2024 · Education A Jellyfish government in NSW: public education’s privatisation-by-neglect Dan Hogan A private school that receives public money is not a private school: it is a fee-paying public school. The overfunding of private schools using public money is a symptom of a public service that has been rotted for a quarter of century by a political class with no vision beyond producing dubious, misleading statistics to deploy at the next election.