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Maria Chekhov
The Night Before She Died
The fifth and final poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive. more »
May 15, 2013 by Susan Paddon in Poetry
Maria Chekhov
Maria, 1878
The fourth poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive. more »
May 15, 2013 by Susan Paddon in Poetry
Maria Chekhov
Easter Day
The third poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive. more »
May 15, 2013 by Susan Paddon in Poetry
Maria Chekhov
Belaia Dacha
The second poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive. more »
May 15, 2013 by Susan Paddon in Poetry
Maria Chekhov
Chekhov’s Sister, 1873
The first poem in a series dedicated to Maria Chekhov, sister of the famed writer and keeper of the archive. more »
May 15, 2013 by Susan Paddon in Poetry
Circus Girl
Jenny didn’t have to run away to join the circus—it came to her. But not with midgets, bearded ladies or elephant men in tow. No sir, the circus had gone out and bought itself some style. more »
Mar 28, 2013 by Joel Fishbane in Short Stories
Malarky
Irish-Canadian writer Anakana Schofield addresses the hardships of widowhood. "'Men,' I said. 'Naked men. At each other all the time, all day long. I can't get it our of my head'." more »
Oct 3, 2012 by Anakana Schofield in FICTION (3 Comments)
"Gypsy Goat Woman" by Jake Genen
Show Business
A young girl gets a taste of show business by acting as Sleeping Beauty in a sideshow. more »
Aug 13, 2012 by Angela Mairead Coid in Short Stories
Members
Honourable mention in the 8th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest. more »
Jul 23, 2012 by Jannie Edwards in Postcards
Another Ventriloquist
In this excerpt from Adam Gilders' Another Ventriloquist, a father builds his daughter a swan's nest, a ventriloquist revises his act, and a beaver terrorizes a neighbourhood. more »
Jun 4, 2012 by Adam Gilders in Short Stories
Fireman's Carry
In this excerpt from Steven Heighton's new book The Dead Are More Visible, a firefighter must decide what lives are worth saving in the heat of a four-alarm fire. The official line is that firefighters save people - but what about reptiles? more »
May 24, 2012 by Steven Heighton in Short Stories
To Be Read by My Children in the Event of My Demise
In Katie Daubs' short fiction, a father writes a deathbed letter to his children, explaining the surprising way he really met their mother. more »
May 3, 2012 by Katie Daubs in Short Stories (1 Comments)
Calypso
An orchestra, an audience and a conductor dancing the calypso to the national anthem in David Albahari's Calypso. more »
Oct 31, 2011 by David Albahari in Short Stories
Jeremy Bruneel
Tilly Starblanket
"And if you haven’t yet learned which colour you are, it shouldn’t matter, one tends to think." more »
Feb 28, 2011 by Kelly Shepherd in Short Stories (3 Comments)
Guanacaste Journal
The Central American vaction was all-inclusive, but she brought her own guilt, just in case. more »
Feb 8, 2011 by Evelyn Lau in Poetry (2 Comments)
Rat Lake
Another classic story from Geist's 20th Anniversary Collector's Issue. more »
Jan 17, 2011 by Salvatore Difalco in Short Stories
Tummy-flat
From Lemon Hound, a poetry collection published by Coach House Books in 2006. more »
Oct 4, 2010 by Sina Queyras in FICTION
Girls
From Lemon Hound, a poetry collection published by Coach House books in 2006. more »
Oct 4, 2010 by Sina Queyras in FICTION
Import-Export
The Halifax mafia never had to sell cornpuffs to meet Morris' quota. more »
Aug 5, 2010 by Shane Neilson in Short Stories (1 Comments)
The Natural Elements
Men left women and women left men and it was all perfectly legal—even natural. more »
Apr 2, 2010 by Lynn Coady in Short Stories (1 Comments)
Talent Night
Sometimes my dad played cribbage in the evenings with Mr. Coward. They just sat there like two old men and drank rye whisky from juice glasses. more »
Mar 22, 2010 by Bruce McDougall in Short Stories (9 Comments)
Western Girl
I met Ryan at the smoking section before school. He had on his best jeans and a button-up shirt. Neither of them fit. He looked me over. Nice clothes, he said. Little tight, though, don’t you think? Better tight than too loose. Is that your dad’s s more »
Feb 17, 2010 by Dana Mills in Short Stories (1 Comments)
Dear Sasquatch
You're the kind of creature who comes to events like these and sits in the corner writing confessional poetry. more »
Feb 12, 2010 by Chris Gilpin in FICTION (1 Comments)
