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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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Silver & Blue

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

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Ginger Ngo

Dispatches

Strathcona

That is how one shows true love

GILLIAN JEROME

Reviews

Expecting Baby: 9 Months of Wonder, Reflection and Sweet Anticipation

Child-rearing manuals cropped up with a vengeance in the latter half of the twentieth century after Dr. Benjamin Spock produced Baby and Child Care—the all-time best-selling book in American history, second only to the Bible, despite advice such as “

KIM GOLDBERG

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Close Door, Push Away Moon

When the winds came, we lashed ourselves to fir trees because we knew what they were and where they stood.

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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