You can keep going, the moon said, if you want to.
DAVID CLERSON
City Within
The rooms I imagined repeating endlessly, with me at the centre.
K'ARI FISHER
Don't Worry, Leonardo Has a Plan
Being a warrior princess is a lot like being an archetype of human potential.
Susie Taylor
Fiction
Do You Know Who I Am B’y?
Go to bed. Lock the door. Don’t open it for anyone.
BERNICE WICK
Fiction
Teleportation Blues
“It's often triggered by group settings. Especially groups laughing.”
LOUIS-KARL PICARD-SIOUI
Hannibalo-God-Mozilla Against the Great Cosmic Void
Kawishhhh! Kaaaawishhhh!
CARY FAGAN
Laughing Heir
"He listened to the message three times, then sent a text to Ciara begging off dinner without giving a reason."
BARBARA BLACK
Ground Zero
Bert scuttled through the intervals in a microscopic world of his own creation.
CAROLE GLASSER LANGILLE
Consolation
No one gives up words except to get out of hell.
DAVID MILNE
Conversation with Victor Frankenstein
When deprived of sensory input, humans experience miraculous, spiritual things
SUE GOYETTE
Fiction
Fidelity
Three poems by Sue Goyette, excerpted from her book Penelope.
TANJA BARTEL
Current Phobia
Three poems from Tanja Bartel: Dream Job, Unkempt, Inept.
MICHELLE ELRICK
Fiction
Ethelbert: Ten Days in May
Excerpt from Michelle Elrick's Then/Again.
ANDREW BODEN
Shack Stories
Mr. Maillard scared me from the moment he stepped from his red Chevy pickup. He stood six inches shorter than me and weighed sixty pounds less, but exuded tough son-of-a-bitch like cologne.
SHANNON WEBB-CAMPBELL
Star of the Sea
Joseph always told me, you belong to Newfoundland. Don’t call yourself a Canadian. You are an islander, despite an Alberta birth certificate.
DAVID FRANK GOMES
Co-Dependence Day
"America. 2037. The country is a giant theme park. Cigarettes, alcohol, firearms and professional sports are outlawed."
JEAN-MICHEL FORTIER
Mr. Guest
"We haven’t slept since Saturday, we’ve been so excited by the arrival of a stranger, an odd sort of city mouse lost in the country."
DOUG DIACZUK
Blood and Berries
From Chalk, winner of the 38th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest.
CLAUDIO GAUDIO
Fiction
Say Anything
"Nietzsche, for example, thought his pen was a hammer, but he may have been mistaken because German professors rarely did their own carpentry."
ERIC DUPONT
Fiction
Trouble at the Henhouse
"I now know that every omelette, every angel cake, every soufflé, and every bucket of Colonel Sanders’ fried chicken brings us closer to a better, more intelligent world, where cruelty and pettiness do not exist."
HAL NIEDZVIECKI
The Archaeologists, Chapter 32: Hal—Thursday, June 26
Chapter 32 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.
HAL NIEDZVIECKI
Fiction
The Archaeologists, Chapter 27: Susan—Monday, April 21
Chapter 27 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.
MICHAEL CRUMMEY
Making The Fish
Two motions with the knife, across the throat below the gills and along the bare length of the belly, like a Catholic crossing himself before a meal.