Fiction

An illustration of an apartment with green cupboards and brown counters. A mouse looks over the edge of a sink.

Fiction / November 2024

Extermination

December 13, 2024December 12, 2024 - by Sue Murtagh

Even if you don’t see them or hear them, there are always others—somewhere in your home

Fiction / Paid Post

2024 Amazon Canada Shortlisted Youth Short Stories

October 28, 2024October 29, 2024 - by The Walrus Lab

The shortlisted stories in the Youth Short Story category

An illustration of a flames surrounding black vines and dark grapes. At the centre is a window with the shade pulled down.

Fiction / September/October 2024

Smokehouse

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024 - by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

It was as if I’d swallowed the forest fire itself, all of it burning and alive inside of me

Watercolour illustration of a park with a pond and people reading books on a bench beneath a large weeping willow tree.

Fiction / July/August 2024 / Poetry

Summer Reading 2024

July 26, 2024August 19, 2024 - by Various Contributors

New fiction and poetry from Souvankham Thammavongsa, Bruce Taylor, and more

A group of women in a salon turn to look at a pigeon sitting on the widow ledge. The workers are in dark clothing with their hair in buns on the top of their heads. The customers are wearing white dresses and their blonde hair is worn down.

Fiction / July/August 2024

Pick a Colour

July 26, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

She hasn’t really looked at me. She knows I am there and what I do

A girl with short pink hair looks across the room at an identical girl sitting and writing in a journal. Silhouettes of trees are seen through the windows.

Fiction / July/August 2024

August 2150

July 26, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Tomas Hachard

The latest rain event had been scheduled for the night before, but something had gone wrong

Illustration of a couple camping. In the foreground, the man's worried face is visible in their tent while behind him the woman is swimming in a blue lake.

Fiction / July/August 2024

Heaven on Earth

July 26, 2024July 30, 2024 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

That was no raccoon. They both knew it sounded bigger than that

Illustrations of glasses, matches, a car, fountain pen, amulet, leaves, coins, flowers, fountains and a large house surround a black-and-white photo of a Sri Lankan family snipped by bird-shaped scissors.

Fiction / May 2024

Wo

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 - by Randy Boyagoda

We ate and drank and drove on and I went off the road, and so we discussed the situation and decided it would be a good idea to pull off the road

Black and white illustration of a female mermaid-like figure with a pink background. She is sitting on a stone with her feet and left hand dipped in the sea while her right hand holds a glowing box. Behind her is the outline of an orb through which the distant horizon is visible. A swirling border surrounds the scene with leering eyes drawn in the top corners, looking down at the figure.

Fiction / March/April 2024

Two Female Modes of Transportation

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 - by Jowita Bydlowska

The boy watches as the girl slumps over herself, the fire hair like a warning against coming closer

An illustration of a woman looking at an outstretched hand holding a gold watch in the middle of rummaging through a drawer. In the background is a body lying on the floor beside a table with a bottle of champagne and a champagne flute on top of it.

Fiction / January/February 2024

The Last Vacation

January 5, 2024January 4, 2024 - by Marlowe Granados

The face of the con was always someone who embodied the fashion of the time—a slob, a genius, or finally, a charismatic dum-dum

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