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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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Colin Varney

Crime writer and Oz-rock legend Dave Warner said of Colin Varney’s novel Earworm: a Tale Told by a Love Song: “Hark! The rarely heard tune of real Australian originality.” Colin's short fiction has featured in Meanjin, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings and elsewhere. He completed a Masters in creative writing at the University of Tasmania.

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2 November 20224 November 2022 · Friday Fiction

Fiction | Knitting

Colin Varney

Memory’s a trickster, just not a very good one. It meddles with the mise-en-scéne of the music awards, faithfully recreating the tables and stage but inserting a children’s swing and climbing frame. It cut-and-pastes a sunbather plattered on a towel. A couple picnic on a rug.