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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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Megan McGrath

Megan McGrath is an award-winning writer from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in Queensland. She has written for the New York Times, Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Tracks magazine, among others. Her short story collection, All Hands, is published by Spineless Wonders.

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Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 ·

Fiction | What it means to say yes

Megan McGrath

We meet in the domestic terminal. A departure lounge cliché. You with your schooner of James Squire in the airport bar and me with a stale glass of sparkling, the last dregs of the bottle smelling a bit like feet. We sit at different tables. You take a photo of your beer, framed by the window, the wingtip of the aeroplane beyond. I scribble in my journal wingtip.