The road to El Dorado is lined with goldenrod, golden wheat and missed opportunities.
MERCEDES ENG
The legend of the craft brewery of Medicine Hat
Fuelling dreams with craft breweries.
SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA
How to Pronounce Knife
“He leaned over it and said, ‘Kah-nnn-eye-ffff. It’s kahneyff.’”
PAUL BAE
For the Ladies
Paul Bae recounts the things high school students say.
MICHEL TREMBLAY
Elf in the Breadbox
Losing a bit of bread from time to time is a fair price to pay to have spunkies around.
JEANNE RANDOLPH
Prairie Modernist Noir
On the Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth.
ANDREW WEDDERBURN
All the Funnest Music
A composition of old ski hills, cigarette smoke and plastic pine trees—why change chemistry?
KELSEA O'CONNOR
Programming Language
A selection of BISAC codes added and removed in 2019.
HOWARD WHITE
Denouement
“Like the man said it’s a long way down.”
KAT CAMERON
VW Ramblings
"I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe."
Free Parking, Alberta
Selected tripadvisor.com reviews of the UFO Landing Pad attraction in St. Paul, Alberta,rated #1 of 5 “things to do” in St. Paul.
JOI ARCAND
Cree Comic Sans
Cree syllabics meet Microsoft diacritics.
ARLEEN PARÉ
The Block Watch Co-Captain Emails Regarding More B and E's
Lock your doors. Lock your windows. Make many friends.
Touch of Death
Orgasms, vampire bites, time paradoxes and other causes of death on screen.
Snot on a Wire
An excerpt from a Lonely Planet compendium of local idioms of the world.
LARRY TREMBLAY
Sentimental Decadence
Antoine eats his eggs and bacon with gusto and proudly declares "I am what I am!"
JOANN MCCAIG
Woman Meets Man
In which romance inspires art and life trudges on.
MARY HUNT
Lost at Sea
A true story told by Mary Hunt (née Way), a ninety-two-year-old retired Avon representative who lives in St. John's, NF. The story was written down by her grandson, Rob Fritz, and brought to Geist by her niece, Lily Gontard, a contributing editor.
AMANDA LAMARCHE
Fear of Dying to the Wrong Song
You now know only that you are alive in the taxicab, seconds before it pours itself around a pole.
Dirty Old Demon
Poem from a 1990 tract from North Carolina that portrayed Santa Claus as the devil.
OISIN CURRAN
Flash, Bang, Whistle, Boom
"My Follower is still after me. I can feel it back there but can’t see it."
JEFF MUSGRAVE
Instructions For My Father
"Leave the woman taking this picture, Dad..."
DESMOND COLE
Toy Version Racism
Desmond Cole on carding in Toronto.
GEORGE K. ILSLEY
Another Woman In Canada
A collection of one star reviews of Dear Life by Alice Munro.
