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 1 6 November 2026 · Friday Fiction Headland Harry Goddard He must have still been sore. I could tell from the winces he made as he scooted down the trail. Some unspoken agreement of not hitting other people’s children — and the circumstances of me not being that type of kid — spared me from the same punishment. I was taken to my parents who agreed I would have to work off the damages, and I must have mowed the lawn once, or cleaned the family car. 4 November 2026 · Film MIFF, Minotaur and the politics of maternal reception Alicia Byrnes Maternal labour is, in the terms I’ve set out here, not labour at all. Noisy, unfocused, mobile, perhaps even sleepy — it is an affront to arthouse film viewing and therefore unserious.
