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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Tristan Hurree

Tristan currently studies medicine at the University of Queensland, and finds time to write in those precious moments not spent either watching lectures or crying about how many lectures he still needs to watch. His short fiction has previously won the Queensland Young Writers Award, and appeared in Griffith Review.

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11 June 202119 July 2021 · Friday Fiction

Fiction | How to express yourself

Tristan Hurree

Some men paint. Others compose. You might one day favour the written word, scrawling tales of the fantastic told many times before, meaning nothing to anyone. For now, start by telling your childhood sweetheart the truth. Watch her pale face crumple like soggy tissue paper and wish, wish, you’d been born better.