Published in Overland Issue 205 Summer 2011 · Uncategorized Edith’s dead mother Molly Guy missing being winched onto the toilet seat hi jinx in the nursing home 2. over her pokies addiction at last starved of conversation 3. still better looking than a roast leg of lamb with all the trimmings (I don’t think so) Molly Guy has had four books published, a novel, two collections of short stories and a book of poetry and micro-stories. She is currently working on a new poetry collection. © Molly Guy Overland 205-summer 2011, p. 75 Like this piece? Subscribe! Molly Guy More by Molly Guy › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 2 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement. 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets.
