The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday September 4th, 2022
Dark House #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
Two bodies inherit the orbit of darkness. Enter the bedroom and it is all hurried movements in the dark first.
She takes off her clothes. He takes off his clothes. There’s a history there that is centuries in the making. He laughs, as he takes hold of her in his arms and she smiles. His laughter strikes her like the origin of organic root, the nature of earth, peat, clay, peasantry, cold stone, and hard, volcanic rock. Jan takes a bath. He smokes. I wash his back. He passes the cigarette to me and I take a long drag of the smoke into my lungs. There’s that same laugh. There’s that same smile. Who knows where time begins and when time ends in this asphalt jungle scenario. And so, the story begins. This is where the middle of her story begins. My mother just couldn’t help it. Couldn’t help not loving me, I suppose. She’s a hard woman. Tough but she’s still beautiful and elegant. My sister is mental. She has bipolar. Jan smokes. He has nothing but time.
She got it from dad. My looks! Ah, my looks! That I got from my mother. Her tennis legs and her well-toned arms. Dad was famous in our town. Principal at a sub-economic high school. You got good grades from the surrounding primary school, you were in! In for life. Life meaning the next five years of your life and if you did well in your exams, there was always a scholarship to go to a good university.
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A letter to Mama-Salone #poem by Dr Saidu Bangura
“Dear Sweet Mama-Salone:
I know you sometimes don’t want
to be bothered with onerousletters.
I hope you have restedquietlywell
from the troubles of those dark days,
from the woes of the nineteen nineties.
Mama, don’t you think it is time to
wake up and stand up for your innocent
grandchildren and great grandchildren?”
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Tang & Ram #44 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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