Geist 74

Still Life with Blake

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Runner-up in the 5th Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest.

Halloween Capital of America

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:21:00 GMT

This year for Halloween, we creep back into the archives and Stephen Osborne digs deep into his family's history at the Salem witch trials.

Wall of Shame

Tue, 18 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT

For centuries the Saharawis have called the desert home, but they don't belong here. At least not on this side of the Wall. Nominated for the 2010 National Magazine Awards.

The Last Note

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

She opened her date book. One Post-It Note said, Pick up alfredo sauce and the other said, Have sex with a stranger.

McPoems

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Poems of memorable customers: the one who ordered a hundred cheeseburgers, the one who bought three meals a day at the drive-thru, the drunk one in a clown suit . . .

Sewing Cabinet

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Cylinders of oxygen rolled past like dolls, propped up in wire baskets. After the first few minutes it all seemed normal.

Be More Controllive

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Suggestions from grade ten students at a high school in British Columbia on how the teacher can get the class to pay attention, compiled by the teacher.

7 lbs. 6 oz.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

I looked in her purse and found nothing but scraps of paper so covered in writing there was hardly any white left on the pages.

Grey Matters

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Diana Athill looks smooth and wise and a bit mischevious, and she wears the chunkiest, most in-your-face necklace I've ever seen.

Ordinary Weekly Deaths

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

If Toronto were like Baghdad, thirty-nine residents would die violently every week.

What Say You Now . . . Brother?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

From Red: A Haida Manga, published in October 2009 by Douglas & McIntyre, an imprint of D&M Publishers Inc.

Kuta Beach

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Boyfriends are trouble, I said. He leaned over and gave me a high-five.

Tesoro

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The man who told me to sit here is wearing a blue uniform. He asks me questions. “You’re going to sacrifice your body just to save some money,” he jokes.

Shuttle Survivors

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

On a recent trip to Paris, I met a young woman from Japan. But this is not a story about a sudden love affair, which one might expect in Paris.