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Issue 154

The Funeral

When he told me that Asha was dead I was sad in the way where you feel nothing, knowing that that nothing is a symptom of a whole lot that will come later. Read more.

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Issue 154

If This Is An Emergency

Before her kids came to visit the first time, she’d worked for days, cleaning top to bottom, shopping for furniture for their room. It smells old in here, was the first thing her oldest said.
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Issue 154

Two Poems

mammals don’t sprout from broken ribs. injury has its own lessons. it says: wrap yourself in soft cotton.
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The Writer’s Corner

July 14, 2020

Pearl Pirie’s Writing Space

My real writing room is between my ears, and on nearest piece or paper, or lately something digital since a broken wrist has wreaked havoc with my already iffy handwriting. I write wherever I can find my laptop or phone. I may have to lift a cat or dog to find them, or I may […]

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July 9, 2020

Kate Cayley’s Writing Space

I have a home office with a bed in it which doubles as a guest room twice a week (friends from out of town who have to be in Toronto one night a week for work, one working for the AGO, the other a farmer who sells at a market here). Of course, we don’t […]

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July 1, 2020

Finding the Form with Jann Everard

It wasn’t until I was asked to consider writing this blog post that I appreciated the tortured history of  “Watching Her Breath.” According to my records, my first version of a story set in the Marche region of Italy was drafted in the autumn of 2014, just after I’d returned from a two-week trip to […]

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