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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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Lucy Treloar

Lucy Treloar is a Melbourne writer, previously published as a children’s book author. Her stories have appeared in Seizure and Sleepers Almanac. Her first adult novel won the Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award and she received a Varuna Publisher Fellowship for the same work.

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Published in Overland Issue 212 Spring 2013 · Writing

Natural selection

Lucy Treloar

Everywhere Kate looked was saltbush and sea beneath a pan of impossible blue sky. She lifted her face and felt the white light fall on her and let it burn away the thought of Rosie sunk in the black hole of her room. Her parents were walking ahead, her mother somehow evanescent, her father as immutable as the geology around him.