The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday October 23rd, 2022
Rainbow Street – Part 1 #ShortStory #Fiction by Richard Stanford
The boy arrived on our street one day without a name and without a past. It was the spring of 1950, a hot humid day in the east-end of MontrĂ©al where the aromas of pure coke, tanning dye and railway dust welcomed the morning. I lived with my parents on St. Clement Street, two houses up from the train tracks. We kept time to the passenger trains and lost sleep to the rumble of freight trains. But like anything else you get used to it, that and the aromas. My father never did get used to it. On this day I was in our backyard with a Brownie Instamatic camera and I had plenty of territory to find subjects to shot. Our backyard was large, populated by a couple of apple trees, several shrubs and beds of roses – my mother’s handiwork. The roses became the first of my images because birds would not sit still. Neither could my mother.
“Where are you?” Nora shouted from the back door, a cigarette dangling from her mouth.
I was on the ground framing in the viewfinder what I thought to be a perfect shot. “What!”
“Don’t bark at me, young man. Now come, and bring the camera,” and she set off in a puff of smoke along the walkway to the street.
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You must be very tired #poem by Abigail George
“All drugged up.
All drugged out. And I wonder when, if ever,
he’ll find peace
of mind. When he’ll stop lying. Lying to himself,
most of all.
His denial is tearing us apart as a family unit.”
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Ephemera #72 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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