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Something Special

Sarah Gilbert -

In the Gatineaus, where they’d rented a cottage, the days were an early summer medley of leaf green and lake green. It was the...

Collection Day

Kurt Gottschalk -

Xian took a paint marker and an old mini-cassette recorder from his pocket. “Second and C,” he said into the tape recorder. His work...

Babies

Ricco Siasoco -

More incredible things had happened, Hugo thought, than a man giving birth. Frogs were born with six limbs; praying mantises laid eggs in gummy...

Remarkable Unknown Short Men of Canadian History

Ryan Abbott -

Archibald Lewis Lee (b. 1830, Kingston, Upper Canada, d. 1899, Kingston, Ont.; 157 cm, 5’2”), personal secretary, speechwriter and dutiful assistant to Sir John...

The Hills

Kate Durbin -

Close up shot of office building on Wilshire Boulevard. The sky is blue behind the gray building. Interior shot of office. A woman stands...

98 Mothers

Andrew Kaufman -

David Bishop was driving to his mother’s house for dinner when he checked his cell phone and found ninety-eight messages. Every one was from...

St. Kevin of Cleveland

Patrick J. Salem -

Let me say right off that if any of you mooks repeats this story to Eric or Max or the other guys from school,...

Splinters

Deji Olukotun -

Tensing had said little during the drive and just navigated the potholes—gaping cavities now because of the...

I Am Having A Funeral

Mark Piekos -

I hate this place. I come here each morning at nine a.m. I am greeted with the frigidity of the security guard, dour and...

For the Benefit of Others

Roxane Gay -

Whenever my mother explains why she does things she resents having to do she says, noblesse oblige, nobility demands it. She tells me we...