Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

A World of Flirts

The name of the lot was COOS AUTO BROKERS and the motto was Good Cars—Good People. Joyce used her weight to open the...

The Warhol Gang: an excerpt

Nickel takes everyone in the office on a corporate retreat for the day. We go to Gun World, an indoor shooting environment in the...

The House Where the Grifters Squat

I am sixteen and running away to the house where the grifters are squatting. A single story rectangle with a claustrophobic porch, the place...

Conversation at Four A.M.

He kisses her neck, while she sleeps, with little pressure. Staring at her, he thinks of the warmth and desire her face inspires...

The Best and Most Intense

The hypnotist knows what he’s doing. The woman in the bed with him has her eyes closed. She was very susceptible. Not everyone is....

When You’re Gone

Patty boards the train in Calgary on her way back home to Vancouver and takes a seat near the window. Other passengers heft their...

The Other Internet

On the Other Internet there’s no “www.” There’s no such thing as URL’s or menu bars or web searches or any of that. You...

Claudia

It was 1960 and we hitchhiked through the middle of the United States. We slept wherever we could, on floors mostly, in the backs...

The Man With the Divided Back

excerpted from the forthcoming novel The Man With the Divided Back There are only three cities in North America which can claim to be the...

Alice and Alex

She remembers them, Alice and Alex, not as they were, nor as they would have liked to be, nor even as they would have...