Consulate

Sam cursed at the ringing telephone. Minutes from her deadline, she was still fiddling with footage from the Minister of...

“Mark Phillips.” “What? Sorry?”  “Mark Phillips.”  “How do you know my name?”  “You don’t remember me.”  “I’m sorry, no I don’t.”  “Think.”  “I am.”  “Think harder.”  “Yeah.  Well, I’m thinking hard.”   “Right. Think...

When the phone rang I was lying on the divan. It sounds so chic, like I was a lady of leisure waiting for other...

I have ten seconds. Or at least that’s what it seems like. I reach for my backpack, but it's far off on the other...

I was born in a laundromat in Paris, Ontario. If you knew Gina you wouldn’t think it was that weird. Gina is my mother....

He came to the conclusion that the primary difference between what he did and what the Nazis did in the death camps was that...

“Edith,” those four women said, “you’ve been inconsiderate.”  Thoughtless, they continued. Unsympathetic. Less than kind. Etc.  An intervention, no less. Over coffee and cookies, prepared by...

We made a fake Facebook account at an internet café, one of the last ones downtown, full of Korean gamers and a weird smell...

“Temporal horizon.”   I overheard an Australian man use that expression today at a Best Buy in Montreal - where I bought a blank CD...

When Arthur leapt out from the black the eight men around the fire quit talking. One stood like he was pulled up by cables....