Things Discovered and Un-

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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Stephen Osborne

Dispatches

Evictions

When Malcolm Lowry’s shack on the beach at Dollarton, B.C., burned to the ground in 1944, he and his wife Marjorie were able to save the manuscript of only one of the novels that he was working on at the time. A few months later the same manuscript had to be rescued again when the house that friends found for them in Oakville, Ontario, also burned to the ground.

Michael Hayward

Reviews

Notes from Desolation Peak

Review of "Desolation Peak: Collected Writings" by Jack Kerouac

fiction

“Come Play on my Island”

I can’t blame youfor claiming this place as your ownpersonal theme park. For you,there is only summer when every curvein the road brings a new photograph—red cliffs climbing out of the sea, field upon fieldof white blossoms, a wharf where boatschristened The Maggie-Mae and Aurora Dawndepart for the fishing grounds.

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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