The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday May 28th, 2023
Alice eating peaches from a can by Abigail George
Getting onto an airplane frightened Alice.
“So,
when it comes to your sister, let’s talk about that now?” The handsome,
green-eyed (sometimes his eyes were brown and sometimes they were
green) Afrikaner doctor asked her.
Sometimes it felt as if Joe, her father was in the room with her. Standing there in his day old clothes, dirt under his fingernails. Glowering at her under his neat eyebrows from out of a corner where smoke was curling from his lips. As if he, Joe, had not given his blessing for ‘this’.
His eyes were ice. The ex-soldier with the difficult bride had married the young girl in a church hall.
Two difficult pregnancies had followed. Both Caesarean sections. Children were wanted but sons.
Heirs, not daughters. The relationship had failed in the end. Neither party believed in the marriage.
Gertrude had walked out on her daughters and her husband. She had enough of cleaning and cooking barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.nanne
“Yes? Oh, I’m answering a question with a question again. The relationship is quite fine now. “We don’t speak. We don’t see eye to eye and I think that there is a part of me that is quite accepting of that now.” Alice replied sinking into the leather sofa in his office.
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Ralphy Baby #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“What did you say when you called me on the phone that time, Ralphy Baby?
You said you were dying of a brain tumor.
Took my breath away.
I couldn’t calculate. I said:
“Don’t say that, Ralphy.”
So you said: “And what’s up with you?””
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Ovi Bookshelves: Araby by James Joyce
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Mika Toxica #55 by Thanos Kalamidas
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