An account of an Aboriginal, imprisoned over an issue of tea.

"We are the arbiters." A piece about Canadian artistic culture and recognition.

Taxi cab drivers recount awkward moments of hustling, illiteracy and condescension. From The Other Side of Midnight: Taxicab Stories.

"It’s a Canadian thing like tourtière or Irving." The quintessential expression of Canadian contrition.

Because of its status as the city’s tallest structure, the World Tower attracted a fair share of attention over the years, but nothing equalled the much-publicized attempt by Harry Gardiner, “The Human Fly."

L.M. Montgomery endures the company of an unpleasant house visitor.

To a fifteen-year-old boy, even women in comic books were a turn-on.

Laurie Lewis remembers a childhood of RCMP interrogations, covert meetings with parents-in-hiding and lots and lots of pudding.

A household chore is elevated from the mundane to the majestic. From Night-Eater.

A visceral scene of bloodshed wrought over injustice. From The Enpipe Line: 70,000 km of poetry written in resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.

I was ready to have to scrape the smog off my windshield every morning and evening.

sure enough when we quieted downwe could hear its faint cries and senseits frantic little bird heart rattling in its cage of bones

Time is an important variable when looking for a missing person—especially so when the RCMP conduct "the bastard search."

Eleven distinct openings for eleven incomplete short stories. From Five Dials 25.

Jean-Claude Germain tells the story of how his aunt once found herself abandoned in a Montreal cow pasture one night in 1930.

A true story told by Mary Hunt (née Way), a ninety-two-year-old retired Avon representative who lives in St. John's, NF. The story was written down by her grandson, Rob Fritz, and brought to Geist by her niece, Lily Gontard, a contributing editor.

"Forget the cat. Focus instead on the topless lady. You have been provided with paper for notes. Remember, this is only a test."

Two men have a confrontation in a convenience store. "One is forty-seven; the other is thirty-seven. One has a gun; the other has not."

"1861–65: American Civil War. Canada invents popcorn and takes to the sidelines." The history of Canadian-American relations, an excerpt from "America, But Better."

Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States, says poetry is optional. And that your reader's crotch is the one thing you never worry about.

An email message to Geist from Randy Fred, describing his journey from his home on Vancouver Island to Penticton, in the interior of BC.

I use the thicker rope for hanging men. I don’t like to use the same piece twice. A fresh length each time and left on, disposed of with the body.

In this excerpt from M.A.C. Farrant's The Strange Truth About Us, one man partakes in ritual rock stacking, another uses the time spent waiting to scrutize the world, and a woman with a star named after her is cremated in a full-length mink coat.