I had screwed up in making us blood brothers. Outside of basketball, we were different

I don’t know where a person can go when they disappear, apart from underwater.

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I put the book back, but within moments it hurtles off the shelf again and lands on the coffee table, open to a passage I highlighted decades ago: “Become who you are!”

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Did the baby understand? Not just ‘go potty’ or ‘bad boy’ but circular concepts of loss and betrayal and identity and love?

"And if you haven’t yet learned which colour you are, it shouldn’t matter, one tends to think."

In Katie Daubs' short fiction, a father writes a deathbed letter to his children, explaining the surprising way he really met their mother.

Half a breath is all it takes, in or out.

Chapter 32 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

The last interview of Crad Kilodney, as written by Crad Kilodney.

Men left women and women left men and it was all perfectly legal—even natural.

Mousey is dead—but perhaps you saw that coming. I was told after the fact, by a friend who’d heard something.

"I am forever surprised by the fact that time passes more speedily between mountains than it does out on the prairie..."

The Only Other Gay in Edmonton had his own apartment and his own gay boyfriend and a stack of gay jeans that hit the ceiling.

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

"I just had to pick up the phone and say, 'Bree, get the Ashtray' and she’d fetch the Buick from guest parking and pull up to the front door"

Chapter 7 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

The Boss lady wants the Wississauga Cable TV Community News team to loosen up, play the field and put on a show—the second installment of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

Chapter 17 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

Chapter 22 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

Chapter 27 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

“It's often triggered by group settings. Especially groups laughing.”

"We saw the dust before we saw the men. They came from the south, that’s what we were told. We’d been told many things that year."

The documentary filmmaker, a jean-jacketed young woman with a silver crescent in her nose, wanted me to Share My Story.

Sometimes my dad played cribbage in the evenings with Mr. Coward. They just sat there like two old men and drank rye whisky from juice glasses.