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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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Diana Papas

Diana Papas is a writer of short fiction and prose poetry, often writing in response to the visual arts. Several of her works are published in Southerly, Long Paddock and Meniscus. She has read prose at the Emerging Writers' Festival in Sydney and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Macquarie University.

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

Mnimósino

Diana Papas

Phylia lifted her surgical face mask up from around her neck to cover her mouth and walked into reception to pay the bill. There were four people sitting in the waiting room spaced out with two seats between them. Theo sat next to a tall plant under spade-shaped leaves, chin down, eyes half-closed. His surgical face mask had slipped below his nose.