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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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Stephen Osborne

Dispatches

Cat in the House

Toward the end of her life I drew close to Althea, the cat who had been with Mary and me for five or maybe six years, ever since her real owner, Mary’s daughter Karen, had to find a home for her when a landlord invoked the no-pets rule, and Mary and I were living mere blocks away, completely petless and, some might say, carefree.

Tom Sandborn

Reviews

Paper Boom: Why Real Prosperity Requires a New Approach to the Canadian Economy

This review was accepted for publication by the Vancouver Sun in January 2000, and then rejected by editors who found it "too one-sided and unfair to the bank." This is the first financial book review to be published in Geist, and is offered here in

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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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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