Category: The Daily Odyssey
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“Stay Awhile, Mephistopheles” by Jessica Van de Kemp
Stay Awhile, Mephistopheles by Jessica Van de Kemp He is a man without a moniker, a polyhistor, an artist of experience. To him, the world is all colour and smell, music and light. The ceilings of his memory are vaulted and there are Florentine frescoes if you like.
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Meanwhile Two Hours South of Kabul in a Town called Khoshi
Mustafa Sidiqee is just a normal person with a camera trying to capture ‘the moment’. He wants to share with the rest of the world the experiences of love and happiness that he sees through his eyes. He has been in the most dangerous of situations while trying to share parts of his life-story from his…
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ART: Subway Gossips – Nick Swift
We love this piece “Subway Gossips” by Nick Swift
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#Bussinglife: On Why I Took The Worst P/T Job I’ve Ever Had (Julia Taveras)
Contrary to the popular assumption that an aspiring writer and performer must also have a PhD in waiting tables, after four years of living in New York, I’d never had a restaurant job. Fresh from moving and starting college, my first job in the city was at my University’s Art & Design Library, then I…
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Fireworks in the Afternoon…by B. Bullock
I hate to love to be reminded of you, you carting around those fragile flowers in those trembling teenage hands, fingernails cruelly cut and soiled like you’d been off digging in some foreign country’s hot volcanic sand, smiling wearily at my wild hair, the surprise in my eyes, fighting a flinch at my sneezes spreading…
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Submission- Re: Gallows by N Marata
To think of surgical gallows Through broken garden paths Like a stubborn tulip Who loved the moon instead Frayed, I go and leap Through noxious sewer-creeks “Plop!” go the stepping-stones As my father did before Sprint past the torn meadow Through fallen trunks and shoots And fading past The hymns he used to…
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Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter
In Act I Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the Earl of Westmoreland reckoned that the cause of the recent violence was due to the hot climate of the summer season. In Shakespeare’s famously enigmatic syntax, Westmoreland reflects and reasons: “On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That…
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WTF: Should we be mad at Rolling Stone?
If you haven’t heard by now, Rolling Stone magazine has released the cover for its August 1st issue, featuring prominently the bushy visage of the Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Poetry submission: Aboard the greyhound by Elena Carpi
Elena Carpi is a graduate of Temple University where she studied English literature and Italian language. She has lived in France, Italy and Colombia and is currently living in Western Massachusetts where she is working on an Alpaca farm and writing her first novel. You can find her poetry and prose at http://elenacarpi.wordpress.com/ … I…
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Live from 125th Street: Responses to the Acquittal of George Zimmerman by M. Pitter
HARLEM, New York City — On this hot July day following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Harlem streets, notable as the cultural center for Afro-American identity in this country, were characterized by spills of grief and expressions of fury aimed at a legal system that openly justified the murder of young Trayvon Martin. The…
