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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Bruna Gomes

Bruna Gomes is an Australian-Brazilian novelist and poet. She is the author of the novel How to Disappear and the poetry collection Triple Citizenship. Bruna's work is featured and forthcoming in various journals including the Cordite Poetry Review, Paper Crane journal and the Columbia Review. In June 2022, she was a writer in residence at the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy.

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Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Fiction

Fiction | Senhor Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Bruna Gomes

my daughter steals the papers every morning like she stole english. she chopped the language up and put it in her pocket. she’s a smart girl like that. knows how to survive like that. up in the trees, eating lagartas, she reads the papers aloud and slow, piecing together all the chopped-up sounds and vomiting them back out through her teeth.