The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday June 11th, 2023
The clairvoyant and Alice #fiction by Abigail George
‘She always managed to make me feel small. I withdraw into a shell. She wins.’ Dr Phil’s guest on the television belted out. Tears were not far away. Everyday Alice made a list of things to her. It helped her to remain focus. It helped her to be a good girl. Not to get into other people’s way in the house. For a girl Alice was extremely dirty but she had a kind of loveliness, an aura about her. Hair unkempt that was always falling into her eyes. Dirt under her fingernails. Mud on her boots. Alice enjoyed the company of men. Her father, her brother’s friends, Mikale, Julian, an ex-boyfriend and Onke, a childhood friend, watching television with her nephew. She did not trust women. Beautiful women. Beautiful women like her mother. In her mother’s garden the flowers and the sun seemed ancient to her.
Even in winter the trees were green. Her brother took a pruning cutter to the trees. They had to go. It made sense when he said it but she knew she would miss them in a way that was difficult to explain. It was difficult for her to make friends with women who were far more attractive in their own way than Alice was. She thought about women whom the world had not been kind to. Women just like her. Women unattractive in their own way. It seemed to her that it was women not men who had all the power. The power to destroy people on their own quiet path on their part with no effort at all. Of course men had the indomitable power of crushing anyone in their way.
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Inspiration in the seed of hope #poem by David Barger
“There in our backyard
Within the boundaries
Of a worn wooden fence
Is a Japanese plum tree.
Its trunk is twisted,
And the branches spread out
Like an oriental hand held fan.”
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Ma-Siri & Alexa #61 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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