Published in Overland Issue 226 Autumn 2017 · Uncategorized Guest artist for Overland 226: Nicky Minus Nicky Minus Cover Fiction illustration, ‘The trip’ Fiction illustration, ‘The war is a bird with a broken wing’ Fiction illustration, ‘A consequence of things’ Fiction illustration, ‘Super falling star’ Back cover Read the rest of Overland 226 If you enjoyed this work, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Nicky Minus Nicky Minus is a cartoonist whose work has most recently appeared in The Lifted Brow, Overland and both editions of the American anthology Resist. More by Nicky Minus › 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.