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Rivals

Julie McArthur -

1998 Pre-Season My sister Wookie moved to Toronto to join The National Ballet. She arrived with a small suitcase in hand, leaving the bulk of...

Hotel Palestine

Tom Paine -

JORDAN A few days after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, Ann Prendergast left the hospital after a miscarriage. She slipped over the border...

GORILLA PAINTING 26″ x 32″ ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

Kris Bertin -

Present arrives from brother for 29th birthday. Painting of Gorilla with hands raised, palms-up, sitting in marshy field. Dead and disemboweledGorillas peppered around swampy landscape,...

The Convicted

Mariko Tamaki -

When the women came looking for Robert in February, on the evening of our house's Valentines' Screw You and Your Politics party, we were...

Everyone I Know

Stephen Thomas -

Called my ex on the phone and said how about now. They said not so sure bout it, I know we’ve talked about things...

Thrown Overboard, Manacled in a Box

Cody Klippenstein -

Cale is treading water in the middle of the deep end, water sloshing in his ears and lapping at his chin as he listens...

The General

Adam Sol -

We hated him when he was a boy – he was a poor student, an embarrassment on the pitch, and his family owned the...

I Was a Teenage Minotaur

A.G. Pasquella -

At the mall a lady offers me a free sample of zit cream and I’m about to be all sarcastic, like “Look, lady— I’ve...

The Border

Arjun Basu -

And then she pulled off the highway and rolled into the town there and stopped in front of a bar and said “Get out”...

The Poncho

David Balzer -

The Poncho is excerpted from Joyland/ECW’s latest short story collection, Contrivances by David Balzer. It also features work from artists Marcel Dzama, Margaux Williamson,...