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 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.
