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Christine Lai
Essays

Now Must Say Goodbye

Christine Lai

The postcard presents a series of absences—the nameless photographer,

the unknown writer and recipient; it is constituted by what is unknown

Kris Rothstein
The messy back of history

Review of "My Grandfather’s Knife: Hidden Stories from the Second World War" by Joseph Pearson

Peggy Thompson
Have Mercy

Review of "Mercy Gene" by JD Derbyshire.

Michael Hayward
subterranean mysteries

Review of "Underland" by Robert Macfarlane.

KELSEA O'CONNOR
Championing Trees

Review of "Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest" by Amanda Lewis.

Patty Osborne
Crossing Borders

Review of "Solito: A Memoir" by Javier Zamora

Michael Hayward
The Two Roberts

Review of "Turn Every Page" directed by Lizzie Gottlieb

Peggy Thompson
A moment with holden

Review of "Holden After & Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose" by Tara McGuire.

JILL MANDRAKE
POINTS OF INFLECTION

Review of "Some of the Puzzles" by M.A.C. Farrant.

fiction

fICTION
Toby Sharpe

Satellite

Toby Sharpe

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

David Huebert
The Business of Salvation

I watch the lights slip and slur on the headpond and think down, toward the dam, the embankment and the long drop of the spillway where the water rests, whirled and stunned

CHARLES BROWN
Things That Scatter

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

Spencer Lucas Oakes
Bloom of Youth

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
Short Stories
Do You Know Who I Am B’y?

Go to bed. Lock the door. Don’t open it for anyone.

BERNICE WICK
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!

poetry

Sarah Wolfson
Poetry

The Gravedigger

Sarah Wolfson

"... I remembered / the week the fireflies dissolved into crickets. / We'd just lived through the big thing ..."

Owen Torrey
Short Talk on Summer Ending

... You and I / tried. We tried walking down a street once in fall. / It was night, half light, we found ourselves finding / ...

Molly Cross-Blanchard
Here's the thing

"... Blood dripped down my chin. The light / left. After, I googled what it all meant—death, / capitalism, Steffie’s stuffed bunny ..."

Sneha Subramanian Kanta
A Love Poem, Also a Physics Poem

"... I showed you / a video of faint sunsets dawning from / Ochil Hills, and my momentum when / travelling upward, against gravity ..."

EVELYN LAU
Dull Emergency

"...vocabularies / reduced to virus, vaccine, variants— / that dull emergency of the daily count."

JAMES POLLOCK
Flashlight

“a switch, a focus, and a temperament / suited to discovery…”

TERENCE BYRNES
Ash

“The public air transmits / his days wirelessly / to my open window”

HENRY DOYLE
Sunday Morning Sidewalk

“It’s God’s day off, and mine too.”

BILLEH NICKERSON
Langley

“The pizza man ran over our pizzas!” He screamed, but no one believed him.

photography

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Leanne Dunic
On Lake Saiko

At the edge of Japan's super natural forest

TANVI BHATIA
Close Range

The Photography of Ronnie Tessler.

SYLVIA TRAN
To Belong

"Every time we visit my great-grandma's grave, we close our eyes and follow her footsteps across the sea, and back again."

MICHEL HUNEAULT
With a View

Border photography along the 49th parallel.

CHRISTINE HAGEMOEN
Latency

Photos of Vancouver Chinatown taken in 1956 by a mystery photographer and developed 50 years later.

Michał Kozłowski
Synchronicity

30 years of Fabrice Strippoli’s photographs.

JONAH SAMSON
Yes Yes We're Magicians

A selection of sourced images from Jonah Samson's book, "Yes Yes We're Magicians," the title of which is taken from a passage of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, "Waiting for Godot."

LOUIE PALU
Arctic Passage

A series of photogLouie Paluraphs consider the history and changing geopolitics of the polar region.

comics

Luca Cara Seccafien
Comics

She Came In Through the Window

Luca Cara Seccafien

After the neighbour moved to Europe, Lumpy moved in full time.

Eleanor Panno
The Broch

"Every month or so, my mom sends me a picture from a trip we took together."

Emily Chou
My Dad's Brother

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

Debra Rooney
Weird Jobs

Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store?

ALEXANDER FORBES, KRIS BERTIN
Cursed Hermit

Don't mess with Madame Larmer's mojo.

Nicola Winstanley
Wall Spirits

Nicola Winstanley's comic on hearing spirits in the walls at a foster when she was young.

Eve Corbel
Greeting Cards for Tiny Occasions

Eve Corbel creates a set of greeting cards to celebrate life's best and worst mundane moments.

Alison McCreesh
Tuque, Socks and Nothing Else

Alison McCreesh encounters snow in May, a bemused gas station attendant and a dumpster to cook behind on a trip across Canada.

Eve Corbel
Guide to Literary Footwear

Espadrille, paduka, chopine—Eve Corbel illustrates a guide for readers on some of the fanciest footwear found in literature.