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Issue 146

The Dining Room Poem by Another Poet

the father flipped when she spoke through the quiet
and spaghetti filled the air
sauce spurting red across the floor
the mother on her knees mopping the mess
blood-like stains on a pregnant belly
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Susan J. Atkinson in
Issue 146

The Good Death

That night, the last night, Jonathan doesn’t come to bed. He sits up with Fatty on the cramped loveseat in his study, holding her, comforting her, until morning. “Still hanging on,” he tells me, sleepily, when I bring him coffee. “The cat, I mean.” Read more.

Lisa Martin in
Issue 146

Bloody Nothing

The ridge, scattered with shrapnel and other debris, was narrow, and behind them, at the back of the position, the enemy had cut a deep L-shaped trench into the slope. They’d built low bunkers, tucked their guns and placements behind the ridge. Towards the end, the ground fell away into an almost sheer drop. Read more.

Kathy Page in

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The Writer’s Corner

June 11, 2018

Writing Spaces: David Huebert

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of David Huebert, author of “Six Six Two Fifty” in Issue #146.   I keep my writing space, like my mind, a little messy. Sometimes I stroke the fluffy white cat, Moby-Dick. Sometimes—when she gets too eager for keyboard warmth—I exile Moby-Dick. […]

David Huebert in
June 11, 2018

Writing Spaces: Isabella Wang

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of Isabella Wang, author of “Shortcomings of a Juvenile” in Issue #146.   Since I am always on the move, going from school to volunteering, to Downtown Vancouver for my creative writing classes, I do not have one designated spot where I […]

Isabella Wang in
May 28, 2018

Writing Spaces: Mary Thaler

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of Mary Thaler, author of “House-sitting in Iqaluit” in Issue #146.   I do a lot of my writing at the public library. It’s quiet, well-lit, and mostly distraction free. I can’t get up five times an hour to fix myself a […]

Mary Thaler in
May 22, 2018

Writing Spaces: Marion Agnew

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of Marion Agnew, author of “Atomic Tangerine” in Issue #146. Office 2018: My office is in our house’s walk-out basement, and many months of the year I look at snowdrifts or the frozen surface of Lake Superior. That’s why I created the […]

Marion Agnew in
May 22, 2018

Writing Spaces Reading Spaces: Ron Schafrick

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the reading space of Ron Schafrick, author of “Stunts” in Issue #146. Ron has previously shared his writing space with us here.   Reading Space 1: Most evenings I spend reading on the living room sofa, and on the end table beside me is my […]

Ron Schafrick in
May 14, 2018

Writing Spaces: Rebecca Papucaru

This week in Writing Spaces, we take a look at the working space of Rebecca Papucaru, author of Three Poems in Issue #146. Subscribers can read Rebecca’s poems, “Lobster Dinner,” “My Anne,” and “The Panic Room (Glue Ear at Forty-Five)” here. This is an exercise in shame, describing my writing spaces, and not just because I […]

Rebecca Papucaru in

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IF ON THE WAY YOU WANDER: in which we come to terms with our daughter's sexuality, suffer a visit from our mother, wreak havoc on our child's toy, and get naked to spy on our neighbours.

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