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Summer 2025 • Vol. XLVII No. 3 • Fiction |

Then There Will Be More Breathing

By Ben Walter

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Ben Walter is a Walkley Award–winning essayist, the author of the short story collection What Fear Was (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022), and a past fiction editor at Island. His writing has recently appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Cimarron Review, 3:AM Magazine, and On This Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing. Walter’s debut poetry collection, Lithosphere, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann in 2025.

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