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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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Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell is the author of six books, including 2021’s essay collection Matters of Life and Faith, a novel, We. Are. Family, a short story collection, Dodging the Bull, and three poetry collections: Minorphysics, Awake Despite the Hour, and Standard Variation. His fourth poetry collection, High Spirits, is forthcoming via Puncher and Wattmann in May 2024.

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22 March 202422 March 2024 · Friday Fiction

A case of bad luck

Paul Mitchell

My brother lives near you, in the caravan park by the Barwon River. He’s been there since he came back to Geelong from Queensland, devastated because the single mum he’d followed up there had taken to drinking even more than she had in Geelong, and had also taken to rooting blokes she met at the pub and asking my unlicensed brother to pick her up from their houses.

Published in Overland Issue 203 Winter 2011 · Main Posts

The long way

Paul Mitchell

I’m driving from Bairnsdale to Melbourne, off to the AC/DC concert and singing along to one of their CDs: You think it’s easy doin’ one-night stands, try playin’ in a rock and roll band! Bon lets rip with his bagpipe solo, I turn it up until my ears sting and, just for fun, I toot the Monaro’s horn. Magpies fly off a fence and I give them another toot for their journey.