Published in Overland Issue 258 2025 · Uncategorized PARALLEL UNIVERSE Ed Southorn Deified by a confederacy of dunces blazing guns in a rollercoaster, the genius of Red Skull is to convince he’s a genius, actually very smart, a very stable genius. On day one, Lex Corp sent a mission to planet G88-9 hunting saliva from the Grendlers, a cure for all known sickness. Flight time: 22 years. Another smartwatch ransom note, not with a bang but a reckoning. Am I seeing two suns? Or Batman’s Flying Eye? Everything foretold in comics came true, except the flip-top head. Ed Southorn Ed Southorn writes on Yuin / Djiringanj land. His poems, an essay and a memoir extract appear in Cordite, Axon, the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize anthology 2024, Blackbox Manifold, the Journal of Wild Culture and elsewhere. His PhD explores contested space. His poetry collection, Pareidolia (2024), is published by Walleah Press. More by Ed Southorn › 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 18 May 202618 May 2026 · Militarisation Sacrificed for the Pentagon: on Australia’s “security” crisis Gwenaël Velge The connection between the Jarrah Forest, the submarine base, and the data centres is not metaphorical. It is the three pillars of AUKUS, made material in a single city. Pillar III strips the forest to supply aluminium and gallium to the other two pillars, gutting environmental and water security. 15 May 2026 · Friday Fiction The structure Dominic Carew We made it to the park by eight. The winter sun was filtering through the far trees in a wan, lemon trickle, the thin clouds sheets of white. The cool sky a rubbed-at blue. The grass squelched beneath our feet and elsewhere, thinned from wear, the earth stretched grassless and muddy and, in some parts, released a thick mist.
