The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday October 30th, 2022
Rainbow Street – Part 3 #ShortStory #Fiction by Richard Stanford
Nora had been promoted at D-M Publishing and was now an assistant editor. I was working full time that summer at the library but it was Nora who held things together. In addition to her job at D-M, she also wrote book reviews for newspapers, read manuscripts. She also had a dream of establishing an independent book publishing house devoted to Canadian authors but financing such things was proving to be difficult. Nobody with any investment capital were willing to risk a dime on such a venture, especially one headed by a woman. She brought home so many books I had to build more shelves in the hallway which was getting narrower by the week. Most of the books were American and, as Mr. Duff said, mostly bad.
In my spare time I tried to take a photograph that was properly exposed, for once, and maybe in focus, for once, if I was lucky or if I had any talent. It was on one of those hot humid days in the summer of ‘54 when I was again trying to find inspiration with my camera when the typing stopped in the study. Nora came out the back door in a plume cigarette smoke, her floral dress swaying to her quick stride. She parked herself on the lawn chair in front of me. “We have to talk.”
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The tall man, the thin man, the dark man, the sad man #poem by Abigail George
“The sea’s green eyes watch me with care.
I have to get my soul out of here, the river is here
now swallowing me whole, meta lost in translation.”
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Screws & Chips #45 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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