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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Amber Moffat

Amber Moffat is an author, illustrator and poet from New Zealand, now based in Western Australia. She writes for both children and adults. Her picture book I Would Dangle the Moon was released in 2019 by MidnightSun Publishing. Amber’s poetry and short fiction will feature in Penguin Random House and Night Parrot Press anthologies in 2021.

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Published in Overland Issue 240.5: a special digital fiction edition · Fiction

The debrider

Amber Moffat

I hear the dermlings as soon as I’m inside the prep room. They’re squealing, little hooves clattering on the slotted stall floors. I take off my school jumper, put on the clean overalls from my locker. Then I pull new shoe covers over my trainers, wash my hands, read today’s chart. The stink of sows and dermlings seeps in from the stalls: hay warmed under heat lamps, fresh shit, milk-crusted teats.