Choose your own after-school adventure.

Eve Joseph shifts ordinary moments into imaginative stories.

Photos by Randell Epp - A Riot of Colour and Four Maidens Dancing

"At 8:30 p.m. a coyote was heading east on Charles Street and Commercial Drive."Selected texts of the Coyote Sightings and Attack Log Text Alert Group.

A poem by James Witwicki and 5-year-old Anna from From the Heart of It All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Poem excerpted from Micheline Maylor's Little Wildheart (2017).

Excerpt from Annie Muktuk and Other Stories.

If I really wanted help I should go where they could help me, with the other single men. “But I’m not a man,” I repeated.

This excerpt from Claudia Cornwall's At World's Edge, Curt Lang's Vancouver 1937-1998 details Lang's time in Europe and his refascination with Canada.

Adam Gopnik deconstructs the submerged iceberg and unique snowflake metaphors.

Musician Carolyn Mark remembers a wild night with her record label, two roller derby girls, and a pellet gun.

A list of vintage party games, including Who Tapped Me?, Blindfold Penny-Magic, Who's Your Future Wife? and more.

"You know, Superman, sometimes you can be a real prick."

From lorembarnak.com, a Quebecois swear generator, which can produce increasingly lengthy chains of French-Canadian curses on demand, in the style of the lorem ipsumnonsense placeholder text.

“Thank goodness history isn’t all goblets and tapestries.”

A selection of fanfiction tags from Archive of Our Own.

The Google Translate app is unexpectedly poetic.

A selection of new subject headings at the Vancouver Public Library,created between February and October, 2021.

Naomi K. Lewis on the story of her nose.

“his skull for an inkwell / his blood for ink / and a bayonet for a pen"

“Newfoundland is its own planet.”

“Men who wear caps are men who talk weather.”

Found at the Vancouver Public Library: Pigeon Lore, Amish Hawaiian Adventures and more.

“Under the yoke of the oppressor, we had become ignorant and unlettered.”