Live Large
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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You Go First
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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Not Enough Horses
All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras
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Questions Surrounding My Disappearance
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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An African Sermon
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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Summer Plum (Winter Version)
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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What We Are Capable Of
The weaving of words: to bear in mind, to bear tidings, to bear down, to be born
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