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Short Fiction and Poetry
The Solitude of Drowning; I Love Your Every Shade of Dark by Elizabeth Mercurio
Drive out to the wild coast, to forget.
Imagine a life—
drift across the Atlantic
& don’t look back [...]
We Aren't Bad Guys by Garry Engkent
The old geezer was willing to pay me twenty bucks for doing very little [...]
The Salesman by Christopher Butt
The man stood on the corner of Main and Cabot surveying his area. He was six feet tall, thin and wearing a black three-piece suit [...]
Old Mrs. Twaddle by Lynda Scott Araya
Trudy Twaddle rubbed clear the bleary kitchen window. Dead cluster flies crusted the frame...Outside, her towels hung sullenly [...]
The Best of Times by Melanie Bee Cee
Mikael looked out the window at the dusty town street. He was only five, and rather short, so stood on his tip toes to peer out [...]
Maleficent's Curse Revised; The Wicked Witch of the West by Celia Lisset Alvarez
A spindly death at sixteen is not too bad a fate.
What’s there to lose but youth?
What’s there to fear but death? [...]
Seedling by Lene MacLeod
The edge of my lot met a narrow laneway, and on the other side, in that neighbour’s yard there was a black garbage bag. It moved [...]
Prisoner by Patrick Connors
I have lost my voice.
The only word I have ever felt beating
in my heart, echoing through my mind
has been taken from me [...]
Red Eye by Christopher Waldrop
The last time he spoke was last night to his wife and children and others nearby whom he thought should hear [...]
Touch/Either/And/Or/Adoration by Steven Baird
Birdie remembered the drive, the churlish surface of old gravel and pockmarked blacktop, the red and silver maples that idled by [...]
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