Regions

Sky Blue

Lisa Pike Fiorindi -

It wasn’t until just after her fortieth year that she wanted to steal a baby. Marguerite had heard of this before. This kind of...

Your Disappearing Theme

Kathleen Brown -

Leon is leaving Toronto tomorrow. Toronto is a city, a notion of a city, a city en route, a map, adrift, an imaginary allotrope...

The Chamber of the Enigma

Jac Jemc -

“You tell me,” Buzzard whispers in my ear. Buzzard and I made a baby, but that baby ain’t anything like we’d ever expected....

Paradox

Danila Botha -

I’m at the corner of Bloor and Ossington and, all of a sudden, it's really hot. The sun is hitting me directly in the...

Emote Control

Anne Swan -

Let’s say you get hit with something. And we say get well soon and tell you that you’ll be running and working and flirting...

The Narcissist’s Dilemma

Robert James Russell -

Six PM. Thursday night. Jack’s Café Bar. Usually called Jack’s. Sometimes The Jack. College crowd hasn’t come yet, which...

Damage

Jeremy Jasper -

The light glistened on the pane of broken glass when I woke up that morning. I hurried out of bed to jerk the...

Disappearing Act

Emma Healey -

The first weird thing is that Caroline is slowly becoming invisible. No kidding. This is pretty new and she’s still kind of having trouble...

The Soother

Elyse Friedman -

Irma unfastened the plastic clip on her nursing bra and brought a hard brown nipple to Lucas’s mouth. He latched on and sucked greedily....

Summer of Hate

Chris Kraus -

excerpted from the forthcoming novel Summer of Hate PART ONE: 2005 1/CATT: HER KILLER There are some people who like feeling like they’ve arrived at the...