Published in Overland Issue False Documents · Uncategorized The Museum of Lost Things Sonia Focke A look at the archives Image: Pasteurised milk bottle / flickr Read the rest of False Documents If you enjoyed this special edition, subscribe and receive a year’s worth of print issues, the online magazine, special editions and discounted entry to our literary competitions Sonia Focke Sonia Focke is an Egyptologist by profession, a teller of tales by trade. She spins tales of times long gone for curious visitors and of times that never were for any who will join her on the journey. Sonia lives in Munich, Germany. She has showered with a scorpion, married a blacksmith, moved house in a VW Polo and learned the whole of The Mikado by heart. More by Sonia Focke › 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 November 202422 November 2024 · Fiction A map of underneath Madeleine Rebbechi They had been tangled together like kelp from the age of fourteen: sunburned, electric Meg and her sidekick Ruth the dreamer, up to all manner of sinister things. So said their parents; so their teachers reported when the two girls were found down at the estuary during a school excursion, whispering to something scaly wriggling in the reeds. 21 November 202421 November 2024 · Fiction Whack-a-mole Sheila Ngọc Phạm We sit in silence a few more moments as there is no need to talk further; it is the right place to end. There is more I want to know but we had revisited enough of the horror for one day. As I stood up to thank Bác Dzũng for sharing his story, I wished I could tell him how I finally understood that Father’s prophecy would never be fulfilled.
