Eleven distinct openings for eleven incomplete short stories. From Five Dials 25.

A household chore is elevated from the mundane to the majestic. From Night-Eater.

"It’s a Canadian thing like tourtière or Irving." The quintessential expression of Canadian contrition.

A young man visits his first strip club, an awkward experience fueled by alcohol.

A poem about a gladiator who falls into an existential malaise, and 10 facts about the brutal profession.

An excerpt from Crossings by Betty Lambert, a novel first published by Pulp Press in 1979 and republished as part of the Legacy Books Project in 2011.

Laurie Lewis remembers a childhood of RCMP interrogations, covert meetings with parents-in-hiding and lots and lots of pudding.

To a fifteen-year-old boy, even women in comic books were a turn-on.

If I really wanted help I should go where they could help me, with the other single men. “But I’m not a man,” I repeated.

My father never wanted anything. Everything was a fight, Mom said. He didn’t want the telephone and he still doesn’t know how to talk on it.

Canada’s new five-dollar coin features the world-famous Canadian actor William Shatner. The new 9.2-gram coin shows an effigy of Shatner, star of film and television.

Poets in Mexico make words explode in the gut and the chest. Here in Toronto, poets are loners.

Lennon/McCartney, as an entity, seemed to be the most cre­ative force ever unleashed upon the face of the earth. Of course, we even­tu­ally learned that Lennon/ McCartney didn’t really exist.

Need to ask your mother for money for an unexpected expense? This template letter teaches you how.

What happens when a poet is inspired and the only thing on hand is a cocktail napkin?

We rank suffering and turn our disturbances into photographs — disturbances trapped behind glass.

Time is an important variable when looking for a missing person—especially so when the RCMP conduct "the bastard search."

A visceral scene of bloodshed wrought over injustice. From The Enpipe Line: 70,000 km of poetry written in resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.

Gregory Betts uncovers 150 new poems when he crosses out words or letters from Shakespeare's Sonnet 150.

I was ready to have to scrape the smog off my windshield every morning and evening.

Because of its status as the city’s tallest structure, the World Tower attracted a fair share of attention over the years, but nothing equalled the much-publicized attempt by Harry Gardiner, “The Human Fly."

And now, a lesson in grammar from the folks at Narwhal Magazine.