Josephine Scicluna

Josephine Scicluna is a poet, fiction and essay writer inventing and exploring diverse hybrid forms. But, really, she’s writing about music and mobile phones, love and crumbling houses. She collaborates with musicians, playwrights and artists to create performance works and recordings for radio broadcast, which have been featured on RRR and ABC Radio National. She’s won several awards for her short fiction, and her poetry, fiction and essays have been published in various journals including In/Stead, Verandah and The Age.

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Published in Overland Issue 214.5: New fiction ·

The landlord

Josephine Scicluna

The landlord and I meet on the threshold like ex-lovers, avoiding the subject of his three-and-a-half-year absence. I don’t care if I am speaking for him, but it’s the oven that sits heavy between us. He steps around me into the hall and gazes up at the circuit board, while I try to find the marks of whatever befell him the day he was supposed to turn up with an oven. He still looks like he’s in his mid-thirties.