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 5 June 20265 June 2026 · Friday Fiction Hobo portraits: Treadly Tim & the falling star Patrick Holland We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park on Simeon Street and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle. 3 June 20263 June 2026 · Reviews The past in the object: Vanessa Berry’s Calendar Courtney Powell In her latest book, Calendar, Vanessa Berry explores the relationships that are formed between people and material culture, both fleeting and sentimental, and how they can come to represent us.
