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Fiction

Fiction / July/August 2005

Seven Love Letters

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by The Walrus

“Lubyanka, 2 September 1918” by David Bezmozgis My dear Mika, Though you have made it clear that you do not care for me, my heart nevertheless insists that I address …

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Fiction / June 2005

If Things Happen for a Reason

June 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Sara O'Leary

This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They were in a taxicab and he was holding her hand. She …

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April 2005 / Fiction

POETSMART™

April 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Susan Holbrook

Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s face it, they can disrupt a household. Like children, they need guidance and …

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April 2005 / Fiction

Wireless

April 12, 2005September 14, 2023 - by Lynn Coady

Jane salutes you from an age where to be an aficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world

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Fiction / March 2005

Warlords

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Margaret Atwood

To be a warlord — that’s a little boy’s dream everywhere. Point a finger, say Bang, and thousands die. Most of these sharpshooters grow up to become dentists. But if …

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Fiction / October 2004

Samson and Delilah

October 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Jonathan Goldstein

Samson’s father was an Israelite named Manoah. Manoah was an intellectual and a man of peace. He believed the troubles between his people and the Philistines could be solved through …

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Photograph by Myles McCutcheon
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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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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