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Fiction / July/August 2004

Live Large

July 12, 2004June 15, 2020 - by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …

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leaf on a surrealist backdrop
Fiction / July/August 2004

Platanus

July 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Banana Yoshimoto

From that day on, my husband’s sister no longer seemed to be so angry that we had gotten married, and she started phoning us all the time

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Fiction / July/August 2004

An African Sermon

July 12, 2004September 15, 2021 - by Damon Galgut

Douglas would think, much later, of questions he should have asked. He didn’t know, for example, how Mr. Sagatwa had left Rwanda, how he had come down to South Africa. But in that moment it didn’t seem to matter

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Fiction / July/August 2004

Questions Surrounding My Disappearance

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Edward Riche

Granted, things have not been well in the Canadian Film and Television Industry, and sure, even when things were good, or at least promising, people—your average viewer—didn’t read the credits. …

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Illustration by Sonny
Fiction / July/August 2004

You Go First

July 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Camilla Gibb

Carl the cremator lived next door—Carl and his big wife, Brenda, who was allergic to the sun, the outdoors, anything at all that required getting off the couch. We would …

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Illustration by Sonny
Fiction / July/August 2004

Not Enough Horses

July 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Thomas King

All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras

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Illustration by Sonny
Fiction / July/August 2004

Summer Plum (Winter Version)

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Corey Frost

Iwas about seven years old, and it was summer. My mother was making squares for fellowship group at the church, and on the table there was an open bag of …

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April/May 2004 / Fiction

What We Are Capable Of

April 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Frances Itani

The weaving of words: to bear in mind, to bear tidings, to bear down, to be born

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Artwork by Shary Boyle
Fiction / November/December 2003

Choynski

November 12, 2003April 29, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

The young palliative-care doctor, a nice Jewish guy in glasses, prodded around my grandmother’s stomach and explained that the swelling wasn’t only a result of fluid. Some of it was …

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