Category: The Daily Odyssey
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Foreward.
If I were a painter, I would paint it in all its colorless glory, all its stillness. I would use the tiny space of my canvas and make it bigger somehow, draw the lines without boundaries, detail the faces in the abstract so only I could tell yours apart from mine- your face in a…
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Kwanzaa Reconsidered by M. Pitter
My family and I have only celebrated Kwanzaa once. I wore a dark green dashiki and my parents and my sister had on their respective garbs. We lit the candles on the Kinara and discussed the significance of each and how it applied to our daily lives. On the Kinara, there are seven candles. From…
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2012 in review: In Parentheses Literary Blog
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 19,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
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Issue 3: January 2013
UPDATE: the latest issue is available at THIS LINK. PROMO: The third issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is coming January 1, 2013. Submissions click here.
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Pizza Diaries (Excerpt) – Short Story by M. Pitter
Front-page headlines are always designed and gauged to cause worry. This July 31st issue of the Wall Street Journal smacked readers with the quite climactic and apparent truth that “US Intervention in the Iran-Israel Conflict Brings Danger to American Homeland”. Photos disclosed by the Iranian government of their new Fajr-5D missiles aimed towards the Atlantic…
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WORD: A Night to Unite Artists (open mic)
In Parentheses will be hosting a poetry reading in Allston, MA this weekend. Tweet us for any and all information.
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Meet Sa’ide by M. Pitter
Meet Sa’ide (Sigh-Yee-Duh). She lives here in Hebron with her family: her aunts and uncles and grandparents. She arrived here three days ago after sneaking out of Gaza and onto the canvas covered flat bed of a pick-up truck due east for Jerusalem. Through the elaborate networks of Israeli Defense Force checkpoints and the sharp…
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Siri’s message about life…
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Points of Paradisimo by M. Pitter
Various parts of our planet have been popularly dubbed beautiful, considered to be paradise, Shangri-La, the vestibules of nirvana. Narrowing our scope to the radiant oceanic scenes, we see that these places can often take mastery over a person’s pleasure principle or, at least, pull a person into a trance; and she sinks into a…
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America, Take Two Terms and Call me in the Morning by M. Pitter
After the closely fought race for the presidency, shifty and serious all the way through, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has been re-elected as the President of the United States of America. People everywhere rejoiced, heavily clad in an armor of Obama pins and stickers, smiling, racing to Facebook to type into their statuses:________!! Bars were…
