Sophie Overett

Sophie Overett is an Australian writer and cultural producer. Her writing has been published in journals and anthologies around the world. In 2015, she was a Queensland Literary Fellow, and her YA manuscript, ‘Agatha Abel Meets Her Maker’, was shortlisted for the Text Prize. In 2016, her adult manuscript, ‘The Rabbits’, was shortlisted for The Richell Prize, and in 2018, her novelette They Built Us Out of Buried Things will be published by Tiny Owl Workshop. She is one half of Lady Parts, a podcast about women’s roles in genre cinema, and blogs at www.sophieoverett.com.

Articles by Sophie Overett:

Published in Overland Issue 230.5: Autumn fiction ·

Phosphorous

Sophie Overett

Usually still lit, or, if not, charred and burnt, the smoke from it curling down her throat. Butting the backs of her teeth. When Sabrina and Holly had been small it had been the best sort of party trick. Now though Sabrina tosses out a hand to stop it. To catch the lick of flame before it can ignite against her mother’s bones.