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Fiction

Fiction / July/August 2008

The Double Knot

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Miriam Toews

I’m in a bag. I’m in a straitjacket in a bag. It’s a sky-blue laundry bag that Angie my ex-wife made me, and there are two, maybe three hundred people …

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Fiction / July/August 2008

The Getaway

July 12, 2008April 15, 2020 - by Michael Redhill

The operation is a success. Still covered in bandages and groggy from the drugs, they drive me on the smaller roads through the forest to the town with the single …

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Fiction / July/August 2008

The Eagle Has Landed

July 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by J.M. Kearns

part 1: Two Operatives Seize the Road As he pulled out of the last rest stop before Waco, his rental car full of Al Gore’s overpriced $2 gas, Dick Cheney …

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Fiction / June 2008

Where Are The Men?

June 12, 2008October 16, 2019 - by Austin Clarke

“But I love it here in Toronto, in this city, though I wasn’t born here. I only live here. And yes, I work here. More than twenty years now. But …

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Fiction / May 2008

Kim Jong Il: The Script Notes

May 12, 2008October 13, 2019 - by John Reardon

[Kim Jong Il’s] infatuation with film is obvious from the museum’s first room, where an entire wall is covered with a massive list of every occasion when Mr. Kim gave …

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person wearing a beige jacket and black underwear
Fiction / May 2008

Hag

May 12, 2008April 29, 2021 - by Ali Riley

Purple City My first wedding was on the grade five playground. Lance was being dragged toward me. I knew we’d be friends. He had on an orange shirt, a purple …

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April 2008 / Fiction

Death on the Installation Plan

April 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Jeremy Keehn

Department of Customer Relations Raj Inc. Power Tower Toronto, Ontario April 7, 2008 Dear Mr. Keehn: Thank you for signing a two-year contract for a Raj Best Choice Cable Internet, …

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April 2008 / Fiction

Opera

April 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Janice Galloway

Splashing and gurgles in the throat. Listen. Almost a racket, a radio slipping out of true. But it’s not that, not at all. It’s Lola. Listen. Singing. Love is just …

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Fiction / March 2008

An Open Letter to 0.7%

March 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by David Ng

Dear 0.7%, Let me say that it is an honour to make your acquaintance! Congratulations on having been chosen as the target percentage of gdp rich countries should send in …

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December 2007 / Fiction

Lost and Found

December 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Anne Fenn

posted on mysoul.com: 20/08/07 Dear Unborn Child, The other day, my yoga teacher was talking about reincarnation, and suddenly it occurred to me that you might be wondering why you …

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