Odette Kelada

Odette Kelada is a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Melbourne. She has a PhD in literature researching the lives of Australian women writers. Her writing focuses on marginalised voices, gender and racial literacy, and has appeared in numerous publications including the Australian Cultural History Journal, Hecate, Outskirts: Feminisms on the Edge and Postcolonial Studies. Her debut novel Drawing Sybylla won The Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016 and is out now through University of Western Australia Publishing.

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Published in Overland Issue 240.5: a special digital fiction edition

Walking in company

Odette Kelada

I’ve walked a lot lately. More than I would have. More than I want to. Sometimes I think if I didn’t do these long walks with him, I’d be better. We walk like prisoners walk round the yard. I am careful with every word I say. Mouthing it silently, checking it over before offering it to him. He says nothing at all.