Short Fiction and Poetry

Dodging a Jim Beam bottle hurled in her direction, Haley bolts through the back door and runs on a dirt path to the river [...]

It was a beautiful seventeenth century farmhouse in a picture postcard English village, the family home of Liz who would drop me off [...]

The Gunther Observatory loomed tall and imposing, adorned with intricate carvings that whispered of forgotten secrets. [...]

Between forkfuls of fresh catfish, Ted shares how his dentist built up his jaw with ground cadaver bones [...]

the castle brims with ghosts and nightmares shut behind cobbled stone a white shot against shadows hands outstretched for directions [...]

“I’m an airplane pilot,” the man said. He had had a few beers in the hotel’s bar by then, even though it had only opened [...]

Clinging to antediluvian violet granite at the foot of the Terry Fox memorial in Thunder Bay a magnificent hand-sized moth [...]

“Welcome to the Greatest Show on what’s left of Earth!” the Ringmaster proclaimed to the mostly empty stands [...]

Do you know when it is the middle of dusk and you are in the centre of a liminal time? People don’t talk about the middle of dusk [...]

Aroused from my sleep by a distant peal a solemn, singular measure and catch a glimpse through the curtain lace of the woman I prize [...]