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Eaten

Anu Jindal -

When I was a child, in my backyard, there grew a sapodilla tree. In the summer my parents would send...

Rat Girl Rat Boy

Cynthia Flood -

In Marcia’s favourite book, Cinderella’s stepsisters had thin carroty hair. So did Hansel and Gretel’s mother, and the wicked fairy who wasn’t invited to...

Prenatal

Hal Niedzviecki -

Hey! it blurts. Hey! Charlie looks around. A voice in her head. She’s alone in the bedroom. Hey! In here! She feels it, a rumbling deep in...

Sky Blue

Lisa Pike Fiorindi -

It wasn’t until just after her fortieth year that she wanted to steal a baby. Marguerite had heard of this before. This kind of...

Interview Questions For Randy Savage

Nathaniel G. Moore -

Hello Randy, Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. Sorry I missed you. My name is Ricky Galore and I have a lot...

A Better Life

Martin Brinkmann translated by Neil Blackadder -

The bus accelerates up the gentle slope leading from the wide street on to the small brightly lit bridge that takes it over a...

Your Disappearing Theme

Kathleen Brown -

Leon is leaving Toronto tomorrow. Toronto is a city, a notion of a city, a city en route, a map, adrift, an imaginary allotrope...

Jenna On Twitter

Shawn Syms -

Jenna is tweeting when she’s supposed to be painting. Ennui is the religion of my generation. The singer of her favourite band updates his own Twitter...

Paradox

Danila Botha -

I’m at the corner of Bloor and Ossington and, all of a sudden, it's really hot. The sun is hitting me directly in the...

The Green Honda

Don McLellan -

Archie spotted the scanner at a swap meet one Sunday morning. The hawker evidently concluded that he wasn’t an undercover pig, because he leaned...