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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Victoria Manifold

Victoria Manifold works at a trade union and writes short stories. She was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize in 2016 and 2018, was a runner up in the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize and was a runner up in the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Prize.

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5 May 202315 May 2023 · Friday Fiction

Fiction | Pieface

Victoria Manifold

The last Pieface in the state had closed its doors; not even a concession at a servo remained open. This is it, I thought, the golden age is at an end, it’s all drying up now, no one will ever prosper again. An echo rang out—a small pop as if someone had taken a pin to the thin membrane covering a void—the bubble had burst.