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Incredible

Megan Stielstra -

From Everyone Remain Calm now available from Joyland and ECW Press. How it ended was, I got drunk. Like falling off the bar stool. Like...

I’m Sorry and Thank You

Andrew Hood -

He came out onto his porch and there was some hippy mother changing her baby on his lawn. On a Hudson's Bay blanket, the...

Clothes Make a Man

Jessica Michalofsky -

Here is what I do: I drink a small vessel of sow’s blood. I do this quickly with my eyes closed, and tears...

The Little Shadows: an excerpt

Marina Endicott -

Gentry Fox was the shortest man Clover had ever seen, shorter than she was by far. As if someone had pressed down on the...

Waiting for Women

Rebecca Rosenblum -

Colleen’s eyes were a flat silver-green, and her gaze rested on Theo as if he were a tree stump or a fire hydrant. “My...

Cry Baby

Kathryn Mockler -

It is an early Friday morning. The alley is quiet except for the shopping carts and the rattling cans and bottles of the bottle...

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...

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...

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...

Backbreak

Michelle Berry -

She was bending down, red robe held tight, reaching for the newspaper, when it happened. The paper, wrapped in a pinkish plastic bag slightly...