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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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Rob Johnson

Rob Johnson is a writer from Sydney. His fiction has been published by Overland, The Suburban Review, Aniko Magazine, Underground Writers and Corvus Review; his poetry by Sunday Mornings at the River; and his non-fiction by Aniko Magazine and Audrey Journal. For the stage, he has written The Recidivists (Red Line Productions).

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Published in Overland Issue 249 Summer 2022 · Fiction

Uncle Dom

Rob Johnson

There’s a memory I have of fricassee. This may sound like the start of a joke but I am deadly serious. If you don’t know what fricassee is, congratulations. Also, too bad. I’m not going to describe it to you. Talking about the memory is bad enough without going through the recipe.