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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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Zac Picker

Zac Picker is a physicist, writer, and Micro Madness 2019 champion. He currently resides at UCLA, doing boring stuff. He's been published in magazines such as Going Down Swinging, Island, and Soft Stir. See more at zacpicker.com/writing

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30 March 202331 March 2023 · Gaming

RollerCoaster Tycoon and the art of niche hobbies

Zac Picker

As a writer, I spend too much time awake at night worrying about building an audience for my work. And yet, I spend even more time awake at night, planning my next RollerCoaster Tycoon park in my head, for an audience of the hundred-or-so RCT parkmakers I care about the most.