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Tara Cartland

Tara Cartland is the winner of the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize. She is a Melbourne-based fiction and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in Voiceworks and The Big Issue. She currently contributes to Feminaust.org and works for an environmental charity.

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Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 ·

Nativity

Tara Cartland

They come in through gaps around the pipes, and under doors and windows that don’t close tightly enough. Their heads are wide and flat, their skin translucent. When my daughter manages to catch one, she runs her finger from its nose to its tail, slow and rhythmic. The lizard trembles with its own heartbeat.

Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 ·

Frank O’Hara’s Animals

Tara Cartland

Dimity is about to sneeze. She is lying in the yard, watching the bees around the clover. Grass between her knuckles, and at the back of her heels and her daisy-chained ankles. She turns her face to the sun, breathes in and –