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July/August 2009 / Poetry

Louis Slotin You Will Not Turn Forty (after Ted Hughes)

July 12, 2009June 21, 2017 - by Michael Lista

At your fortieth birthday, on a moonlit beach, One of your guests is late. You save a plate. A place is clean and set Amid the after–dinner mess. Why are …

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Illustration by Graham Roumieu
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What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?

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Arts & Culture / July/August 2009

At The Gastown Riot

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Fiction / July/August 2009

The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane

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The night Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head at a Black Hills poker table by the coward Jack McCall, my mother indeed grabbed a meat cleaver …

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Fiction / July/August 2009

Real Estate

July 12, 2009June 15, 2020 - by Rivka Galchen

The admittedly pretty rundown townhouse would sell better if the place could be shown and delivered essentially vacant. That had been the notion. The building’s good bones would be made …

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Fiction / July/August 2009

The Nerve

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Theo Sophistron was in the sky. He didn’t like it. One thing Theo understood was gravity. Things weighed on him. He feared he was making a mistake leaving Montreal. He …

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Fiction / July/August 2009

The Crow Procedure

July 12, 2009June 8, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

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