ons.In “Dates with Destiny” (Geist 67), Daniel Francis meets Elio, whose father made a torpedo in a factory that sunk a ship carrying Francis’s mother-in-law; thus Daniel says to Elio: “So, your father tried to kill my wife’s mother.” Canadian taxpayers pay for weapons, ammunition and soldiers that are used in the Afghan “mission”; in this way of thinking, each and every one of us is personally responsible for the killing of Afghan fathers and sons. »»

ace.As if “Dates with Destiny” (Geist 67) didn’t speak to coincidence eagerly enough, I stumbled upon it during my waitressing shift. Wouldn’t you know it—at the moment I flipped through No. 67, the word Fiume jumped out to meet me—the short-lived city Fiume, my own father’s birthplace. »»