Billy Bennett

Fiction / July/August 2010

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Michael Winter

The Cottage Tavern, he was barred from there. He still got in but if they called the cops he drank at his own residence.

Fiction / July/August 2010

A Few Acres of Snow

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

The man is spending his retirement writing a book tentatively entitled One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Paintings to See Before You Die

Fiction / July/August 2010

Say the Names (after Al Purdy)

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Zsuzsi Gartner

American whiskey bar (no logo), Sudbury, Saturday night, August 32nd On Earth (Shampoo Planet), The Gutenberg Galaxy American woman, swamp angel, friend of my youth, “Raise a little hell, shake …

Fiction / July/August 2010

Riff-Raff

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Heather O'Neill

I was nineteen and I lived in Montreal. I was in a horrible relationship with a boy named Leroy. He would cheat on me and be mean to me in …

Fiction / July/August 2010

Waiting for God

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Rawi Hage

It didn’t rain that day, and the sky was blue, the snow was scarce, and the people were all wrapped in flags and hats that shone with colours. After the …

Fiction / July/August 2010

The Kit Bag

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Linden MacIntyre

In later years, he’d recall a lurid halo in the sky as the setting sun suffused the clouds and looming trees with lavender. His dog barked briefly to announce a …

Fiction / July/August 2010

Mask

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Lisa Moore

We are sitting at a sidewalk table in the stream of tourists. They are tanned or burnt and have the slow swagger of people on holiday, the slap of flip-flops. …

July/August 2010 / Poetry

My Canadian Novel

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by David McGimpsey

The Newfoundland orphange playground and asleep in the stiff nunnery’s bed, the train was stalled at Portage and Main— “Just around then my marriage fell apart.” The pea garden was …