Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 · Uncategorized Types Jal Nicholl supervene on the typical nonsense from afar asemic street and business signs What’s the point trying on a garment you know is neither your size nor style? of telling a story in which no-one will recognise any of their selves? Might as well form a ménage à trois and share beautiful feelings with the woman you love and the man she loves in France in the 18th c. and not say anything for fear of the pain it might cause the misunderstanding It isn’t that she likes soldiers per se or anyway not exclusively: just that she grew up in a military town, her father a tough guy, a real alpha male who was hardly ever around Jal Nicholl Jal Nicholl possesses high-level communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills and is proficient in Microsoft Office. His poems have appeared in the Age, Best Australian Poems, Overland and other venues. More by Jal Nicholl › 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 21 April 202621 April 2026 · Reviews Pilled to the gills: Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson’s Conspiracy Nation Cher Tan The question that Conspiracy Nation implicitly raises isn’t why people believe in conspiracy theories but rather why people have stopped trusting official narratives. But what do we do with this knowledge? When we call something a conspiracy theory, what work are we doing? Who benefits from that designation? 17 April 2026 · Friday Fiction These old hands, they are still growing Sam Fisher It was an old house meshed in an unrelenting grid of brick and weatherboard. Its walls still stood stark, red brick. Paint like tender old sagging skin on the timber windows. A bastard of a garden surrounded it, ran up brick wall and concrete path. The lawn, dead that time of year, luminescent in the streetlight. In the center of that void, a sign, Auction.
