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253 Summer 2023/4

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Simon Castles

Simon Castles is a writer and editor from Melbourne. He is an editor at The Age and a former editor of The Big Issue. He is the author of Mixtape: Stories and Essays about the 1980s.

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Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Fiction

Parliament

Simon Castles

“You can take this off now,” Tegan says, leaning over and tugging at Blue’s bow tie. She’s sitting cross-legged and she falls against him, one knee flipping up beneath her purple taffeta dress. “It’s so hot still, how can you even breathe.”