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Category: The Daily Odyssey

  • The People’s Tea House

    Domino pieces rapidly slap onto the table in the opening salvo. The tempo increases with the soft chimes of stirring spoons. The crashing sounds of saucers begin to build. Layered over the percussion section, the din of chatter completes the daily opus heard at the Shaab teahouse in Slemani, Iraq. In the traditional fabric of…

  • Social Science by M. Pitter

    Social Science by M. Pitter

    Social Science as we know it today (in our corner of the world) consists of a collection of observation-based theories that give ‘reason’ and organization to the ways in which human beings interact with other human beings in the stratified ‘cosm that we call ‘society’. Suppose we apply the ‘hard’ sciences to our daily lives,…

  • A Series In Which Neurosurgery Poses as Poetry – Poem by J.Gawrych

    All hail the brain!

  • WIN: A copy of IP Issue 3 (JAN 2013)

    WIN: A copy of IP Issue 3 (JAN 2013)

    I’d like to invite all of you to join the Winter 2013 IP Giveaway where we will be giving out a FREE COPY of the latest issue of In Parentheses to TWO (2) lucky winners! You can get multiple chances to win by ‘Liking’ us on Facebook, and ‘Following’ us on Twitter! The form is available…

  • The Black Man.

    The Black Man.

    Brittney Bullock is a Boston University graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Primary interests include politics, prose and poetry. http://politicalpoppies.wordpress.com How dare he try to be more than he was.More than a Jim Crow Law, a gutter word walking in the street,more than a color or an ignorant language,more than a sex drive,…

  • One loved…by G. Mramor

    One loved…by G. Mramor

    I. Where is your passion now, one loved?

  • 5 ‘normal’ things that are actually outdated by M. Pitter

    5 ‘normal’ things that are actually outdated by M. Pitter

    1. Shoelaces: Shoelaces have been apart of human wear for thousands of years. The exact date for when shoelaces came about is undefined. But one of the earliest dated shoes with shoelaces has been labeled the Areni-1 Shoe. The recorded data around its excavation in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia states that this laced…

  • I Want to Map You Out with Words…by C Duncanson

    I Want to Map You Out with Words…by C Duncanson

    Cassie Duncanson is a 21 year old writer, baker, museum docent, art history student, who wants to travel more than anything. I call Western and Central Massachusetts my homes. Anais Nin is my current spirit animal. (Previous work on IP by Cassie) I want to map you out with words I want to map you out…

  • A Tweet Is Not a Ballot

    I hadn’t been thinking much about social media lately and really never intended to write my first InParentheses blog post on the topic. But after watching a Charlie Rose interview recently, I felt compelled to respond. The interview was of Roger McNamee, a technology guru and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners,…

  • Love, and All Its Mutations – By L. Breen

    Love, and All Its Mutations – By L. Breen

    On the topic of sex, all that I was told by my mother was that there is a difference between having sex and making love, which, to her credit, turned out to be quite accurate. Others I know were confronted with statistics, Prevention Method B versus Prevention Method C, with Prevention Method A (“The Big…