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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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Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini

Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini is an award-winning fiction writer. She writes in Farsi and English languages. Her stories are published in various journals, such as Southerly, Overland and Heat. Her first collection of short stories, Standing in the Cold, was published by Ginninderra Press, 2021. In 2023 she received funding from Create NSW to write her second collection of stories.

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Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Fiction

At first, nobody died

Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini

I am sitting on a deckchair. It is so humid even the air feels moist on your skin. It doesn’t take long before the waves become heavier and the ocean is howling. I am on a cruise to K’gari island. I am not a swimmer. I fear deep water.

15 May 202015 June 2020 · Long read

The trace of the place

Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini

Here, I was free from prison, out of my country, free in this new country, new home, and inside this new home, new room, the smell haunted me; as if it had followed me all the way from the other side of the globe.

Published in Overland Issue 237.5 Autumn Fiction ·

Kohl

Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini

I have a hearing problem. I can hear the smallest movement of water as if it were the sound of an ocean. I’ve often wondered if it’s because I was born nearly three weeks late. I was delivered by a midwife on the cusp of the forty-third week of mother’s pregnancy.