Cause = Time
Time = God
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Presenting the winner of the Broken Social Scene Story Contest “The universe is infinite,” says the woman on television. She is a doctor of some kind. “It’s like the monkeys …
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Cause = Time
Oh, My Darling
Hello Vanessa. Such a lovely name, with that sensual V, and those three satiny syllables. Va-ness-a. None of that diminutive stuff for me. No Nessa or Ness or, dear God, …
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How Long and What a Marvel
My grandfather died while causing a seven-hour delay of game, which, according to the other grandpas, is how they all want to go now. It was the first game of …
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Flesh and Numbers
The boots were ankle high, smooth red leather Louboutins with crystal studs, on sale for $339.99. “Buy them,” Tom told Salma, suffused with the generosity of the three local beers …
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A Speaking Engagement
But it was over now. It was over, what little part he’d really had in it, and his hour had never come, and now he was going around talking about …
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The Small Hours
He had his parents’ second car to get around the city, to ferry his father to and from appointments at the hospital, but he was staying at a boarding house …
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It’s not uncommon to see a whole caribou carcass on the kitchen floor at the Niptanatiaks. This time, I help Grace cut the meat into cubes for freezing. We sit …
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Salt Spring Island Lamb
SALT SPRING ISLAND—From here, it all looks so normal: a field of tents and tarps, RVs, and picnic tables. Yet I know the membership fee can be life or death. …
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