A fictional Newfoundland where raccoons run rampant, local fishermen buy fish and women use skin creams from France.
All Star Wrestling
Hear the song "All Star Wrestling" by Sister DJ’s Radio Band. Listen for the names of some of your favourite extreme wrestlers: Haystack Calhoun, William Muldoon, the Fabulous Moolah, Kenji Shibuya, Gene Kiniski, Hardboiled Haggerty, Bill Dromo, and
Patrick Lane
For Al Purdy
"Only throw empty bottles at the moon."
CARY FAGAN
Love Letters in The Sand
There's "Lost", "Very Lost" and "Give Up all Hope."
Sarah Selecky
Grandpa's Fries
A childhood memory of crispy golden fries made during a thunderstorm.
JILL MANDRAKE
One But Not One
The fleeting appearance of a familiar ghost haunts the pages of Jill Mandrake's story, loosely based on actual events.
Sunshine Chen
Overtime: Portraits of a Vanishing Canada
"It actually is something beating inside this building, keeping it alive …"
RICHARD VAN CAMP
Ehtsèe
In Yellowknife, my grandfather cries watching a movie about a mushroom who helped a boy.
AMY SPURWAY
If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen Party
"Tree branches. Newspapers. Memories. She’s all going up in flames tonight."
ERÍN MOURÉ
The Old G
Living at tom's house, drinking Grand Marnier and grating his teeth at night.
WENDY MCGRATH
Heaven's Scent
If there weren't any words, would we just draw each other pictures?
Susie Taylor
You Jump, I Jump, Jack
In grade six everyone had a Cabbage Patch, not a "Crochet Kid" from the bazaar at church.
JUSTIN E.H. SMITH
The No-brainer Problem
Not having a brain, yet doing the correct thing anyway is the ultimate expression of reason.
Brett Ingram
Meanwhile in Rocaterrania
Ronaldo Kuhler spent sixty years creating a secret country wedged between Canada and the US.
Cecil Paul
Return of the G'psgolox Pole
Look for it. Look for the totem.
ALERT S. ROSALES
Shimmery Sighting
Experiences that do not easily fit into other categories.
LAURA MATWICHUK
Composite: Black Hole
"Interstellar magnet, collapsed object, feature-less by design".
Forbidden Metadata
A selection of temporarily banned hashtags (the non-lewd kind).
AHMAD SAIDULLAH
Deep Tissue Trauma
. . . who came on his Vespa wearing an army cap and fatigues, and smelling of rose attar, and I asked him, look, I had this problem in the States . . .
EVE JOSEPH
Reaching Out
Eve Joseph shifts ordinary moments into imaginative stories.
MICHAEL REDHILL
How I Got To Sleep
Remembering lost recipes, repelling Nazi scourge, catching bullfrogs at the edge of Pine Lake, drove the narrowing roads north.
KEN HUNT
Last Words
"Uh-oh. / Get us out."
CATHERINE LEROUX
Marshmallow Cases
She is a pensioner, the traveler, the first Québécoise I ever kissed and the one we’ve been searching for for years.
Outlandishness 101
A list of chapter headings from "How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry" by Adam Sol.