The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday December 26th, 2022
The shop assistant’s daughter #shorttory #fiction by Abigail George
You don’t know my situation although I wish you did. It’s too late to offer up any sound explanations through gritted teeth and clenched fists with a heavy heart. The field of the sun is beautiful when translated. Its world giving. A formidable journey into morning.
It feels as if there’s a fever the size of the Atlantic inside of me. A burning sensation like my father’s hand felt like in his one found white glove on his wedding day. Ian, you’re faultless when you’re disguised.
It feels as if a thousand years have passed but it has only been a few hours since we broke up on the telephone. There are ripples of emptiness. Ian, you’re another ghost in this city. Your journey is out of focus. Flowers are like mothers. Language is like the fear of swimming for your life.
Your touch is blue. So is the business of distance from the sky, to you, to the ground. Ian, you held winter in your hands. The dark frightened me. I’m unhappy. I’m lonely. I’m floating on my back in the local swimming pool. Joyce, my sister is not lonely.
Joyce is as cold as a river in winter. During weekdays, the house is kept busy by sighing. Its inhabitants listening to music. They watch television, gathering anticipation for an evening meal.
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Arctic Chill North #poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“Alberta arctic chill freezes my life in exile.
North Saskatchewan River crystallizes froze thick.
My life entomb 10 years here, prairie path, those thorns,
a hundred threats US government, border checks run further north.”
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Worming #54 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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