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Issue 163

The Chamber of Yearning

Wherever I go, my ghosts come with me. I know they are the fathers, going back in an unbroken thread stretching from Warsaw and the Ukraine, through some unknown detour in Germany, back through southern France and into Spain—and back to the beginning, to Jerusalem before the expulsion. It took decades to find the various sections of this thread, to learn where it started, how it meandered through the Mediterranean and northern European worlds of exile.  Read more.

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Issue 163

Three Poems

We are devices thrown down by the stars 
Divining sticks with no will of our own 
Our bodies where they land leave marks 
Which can, they say, prefigure the unknown 
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Issue 163

Child Unwittingly Promised

There are two stories that I want to tell you about a child unwittingly promised. I will begin by telling the earliest story, which takes place not in your time and not in my time but in a time long ago and far away. The second story begins in a genetic counsellor’s office at the Victoria General Hospital on Vancouver Island. Read more.

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August 2, 2022

The Virgin

The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. The Virgin by Anandi Carroll-Woolery My younger brother and I were bored. We had come from Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. We had been whisked away from our toys, our books, our TV shows, to the village of California […]

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July 29, 2022

Between Two Houses

The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. Between Two Houses by Leila Safari It was a dark night in the middle of summer; we were visiting our family for a holiday in the north of Iran. We were staying at my uncle Ahmad’s house. But we had finished our games and […]

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July 29, 2022

My Cake Lesson

The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop about. stories. join. team. contact. donate. My Cake Lesson by Tamara Cooper Once when I was 15, I went to my friend Jenny’s house after school to do our integrated science assignment, which was due the following day. Jenny, who didn’t like doing homework, decided to bake a cake instead […]

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