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Jennifer Gossoo

To prove my wolfishness, I shucked my skate shoes and went barefoot on the pine needles

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Soraya Roberts

Essays

Silver & Blue

Did you hear that the railway built Canada? That’s probably all you heard

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Trevor Battye

Dispatches

What Day It Is

Among the people who live outside the Dominion building in downtown Vancouver, across the street from the cenotaph at Victory Square, is a woman who might be in her late forties and who occasionally turns up in a wedding dress. I’ve never seen her speak to anyone. She simply walks up and holds out her empty hand toward you.

JILL MANDRAKE

Reviews

Pinspotting

"I hope you will agree that we more sensitive teenagers grew up surrounded by irony." Jill Mandrake calls George Bowering's memoir his most provocative work yet.

Finnian Burnett

fiction

Rejoice in His Name

He shreds the envelope until Sarah becomes arah, then rah, then nothing

Guy Elston

Poetry

Marooned

The heat and the stars, everywhere

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CM Wain

Comics

COVID Cryptid

I'd step onto the boat and watch all my suffering recede into the horizon

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Geist 132

Notes & Dispatches from EMILY MOORE, SAGE TYRTLE, IAN ROY, and JESS HOUSTY; New fiction by ALEX LESLIE; Feature essays from KATE REIDER COLLINS and NIKKI CELIS; Poetry by JADE RIORDAN and ERIN VOSTERS; and much more!

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