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253 Summer 2023/4

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Tara Goedjen

Tara Goedjen is a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong, where she teaches creative writing. Her recent fiction has appeared in Meanjin (online), Fairy Tale Review, New England Review, and is forthcoming in KRO. She is currently at work on a novel about ghosts.

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Published in Overland Issue Issue 207.5: Winter fiction · Writing

Arthur’s Bath

Tara Goedjen

Arthur’s mother spent most of her days waiting near the dark bathtub. The basement flat was always in shadows, even with its small windows at the ceiling that met the footpath outside. All evening she listened to the traffic and watched feet streaking past the windows, and with every car horn she thought of Arthur.