Roni Simunovic catalogues types of literary festival attendees: the jaded art student, the CanLit socialite, the overworked publisher and more.

Eve Corbel on marriage and what comes after the wedding: the monster mortgage, the dreary housework, the contemptuous in-laws and more.

Myles Wirth tells the story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, oil tanker designer and survivor of bombings at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The odd duck out.

Are you an engineer? Are you sure?

Nina Bunjevac's homesick father receives hundreds of mis-addressed letters and postcards from Serbian penpals.

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

Eve Corbel lays out how likely you are to die by plane crash, shark attack, lightning, flu and other likely and unlikely causes.

Nicola Winstanley's comic on hearing spirits in the walls at a foster when she was young.

Alison McCreesh encounters snow in May, a bemused gas station attendant and a dumpster to cook behind on a trip across Canada.