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THE Fiction
“Notes to Simon”
By Gil Adamson
"Two Stories"
By Sonja Ahlers
“Future You”
By Jason Anderson
“Near Mint”
By Jason Anderson
“One Sweet Dawn”
By Jason Anderson
“Circle of Stones”
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew
“Extreme Ironing”
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew
“Albert’s Paradise”
By Gary Barwin
“Flight Path”
By Gary Barwin
“Runner”
By Gary Barwin
“The Saxophonists’ Book of the Dead”
By Gary Barwin
“Slice”
By Gary Barwin
“Tart. Sweet. Crunchy. Crisp.”
By Gary Barwin
“Uvula Shadows”
By Gary Barwin
“Despite Last Night’s Rain”
By Jonathan Bennett
“After Dinner”
By Moe Berg
“The Sandra Manoeuvre”
By Moe Berg
“Without Affection”
By Moe Berg
“The Stranger Elijah”
By Tamara Faith Berger
“Thinking”
By Tamara Faith Berger
“Whoredom”
By Tamara Faith Berger
“Be Kind To Your Children”
By Michelle Berry
“I Still Don’t Even Know You”
By Michelle Berry
“Quarter Turn”
By Ryan Bigge
“A Way in the Dark”
By Alex Boyd
“Evidence”
By Tony Burgess
“You’re Fuckin’ Right, You’re Fuckin’ Right”
By Tony Burgess
“Sinsemilla”
By Ben Carrozza
“Professions”
By Kevin Chong
“The Quiet”
By Michael Christie
“And Then the Werewolf”
By Joey Comeau
“Alice and Hazel”
By Andrew Daley
“The Applicant”
By Andrew Daley
“Prosperity”
By Andrew Daley
“Summerland”
By Andrew Daley
“Sunken Treasure”
By Andrew Daley
“The Superman Curl”
By Andrew Daley
“Déjà Yu Makes the Pain Go Away”
By Peter Darbyshire
“The Code”
By Peter Darbyshire
“If You Lived Here . . .”
By Peter Darbyshire
“Neighbours”
By Peter Darbyshire
“I, Tania”
By Brian Joseph Davis
“Flowers Don’t Frighten Me So Much Any More”
By Kim Dawn
“Property Lines”
By John Degen
“The Uninvited Guest”
By John Degen
“Foreign Bodies”
By Danielle Egan
“Habitat”
By Danielle Egan
“Strange Attractors”
By Danielle Egan
“My Life Among the Apes”
By Cary Fagan
“Dreyfus in Wichita”
By Cary Fagan
“Shit Box”
By Cary Fagan
“Greeks”
By Matthew Firth
“The Call of the Loons”
By Sonya Freedman
“Infidelity”
By Stacey May Fowles
“See You Next Tuesday”
By Stacey May Fowles
“Maeve’s Murder”
By Camilla Gibb
“Two Nights Before Christmas”
By Camilla Gibb
“The Year of Silence”
By Camilla Gibb
“The Infected Knee, the Gallbladder, and the Summer of Love”
By Kristi-Ly Green
“‘Wiggie Waiter Bites into Millions!’ Said the News”
By Kristi-Ly Green
“Still the Same Pig You’ve Always Been”
By Ron Hawkins
“The Edge of the World”
By Sara Heinonen
“Ultra”
By Sara Heinonen
“A Situation Comedy”
By Lee Henderson
“What Changed”
By Sheila Heti
“Corey Was a Danger Cat”
By Heather Hogan
“The Princess is Dead”
By Heather Hogan
“Hell”
By Kerri Leigh Huffman
“Hot or Cold”
By Rose Hunter
“Atikokan is for Lovers”
By Amy Jones
“Opening Act”
By Amy Jones
“Viaticum”
By Maureen Jennings
“Circus Notebooks, 1927”
By Elissa Joy
“Mysteries of the Internal Combustion Engine”
By Elissa Joy
“Melt”
By Amelia Kahaney
“A Time I Never Knew”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Good and Happy”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Phoenix”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Sonny”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Unfaithful”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Soldiers”
By Andrew Loung
“French Braids”
By Jennifer LoveGrove
“Valhalla”
By Jennifer LoveGrove
“Four Minutes”
By Andrew MacDonald
“It’s a Keeper”
By Jude MacDonald
“The Author”
By Derek McCormack
“Horse Feathers”
By Derek McCormack
“Rue du Doo”
By Derek McCormack
“The Show That Smells”
By Derek McCormack
“Wish Window”
By Derek McCormack
“Snorkel”
By Judy McCrosky
“Bittersweet”
By Deanna McFadden
“Complex States of Equilibrium”
By Scott McIntyre
“Antithesis”
By Saro McKenna
“Chained for Life”
By Leanna McLennan
“Big Trip”
By Susan Mockler
“Donut Castle”
By Susan Mockler
“Savage”
By Nathaniel G. Moore
“U. of T.: 2020”
By Jim Munroe
“The Colourist”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“Focus Group”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“One Strange Country”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“Real Estate”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“Sometime Next Sunrise”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“The Useless”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“The Many Faces of Montgomery Clift”
By Grace O’Connell
“Locks”
By Marguerite Pigeon
“Makeover”
By Marguerite Pigeon
“The Mermaid Sings”
By Marguerite Pigeon
“No Power”
By Marguerite Pigeon
“Daily Routine”
By Jay Pinkerton
“The First Rule”
By Jay Pinkerton
“Love and Lightning”
By Jay Pinkerton
“Ownership”
By Keith Prestwich
“The Rat”
By Andrew Pyper
“All Things Being Equal”
By Shannon Quinn
“Sunchild”
By Shannon Quinn
“Renaissance Man”
By Stan Rogal
“No Man’s Land”
By Cecily Ross
“A Fog”
By David Ross
“A Private Woman”
By David Ross
“Aphids”
By Stuart Ross
“Buying Cigarettes for the Dog”
By Stuart Ross
“Cow Story”
By Stuart Ross
“Everything’s In Something Else”
By Stuart Ross
“Housing”
By Stuart Ross
“The Interview”
By Stuart Ross
“Monkeys”
By Stuart Ross
“Remember the Story”
By Stuart Ross
“Skunk Problem at the Food Booth”
By Stuart Ross
“The Snow Grave”
By Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg
“The Machine is Perfect, the Engineer is Nobody”
By Brett Alexander Savory
“Heaven is Small”
By Emily Schultz
“I Love You, Pretty Puppy”
By Emily Schultz
“The Side Sleeper”
By Emily Schultz
“Closing Time”
By Dianne Scott
“Rolling Pennies”
By Dianne Scott
“Snatcher”
By Dianne Scott
“Aerial View of a Dinner Party”
By Kate Sutherland
“Camping at Wal-Mart”
By Ania Szado
“Pickers”
By Ania Szado
“The Story of the Eye”
Ten terrifying tales.
By Various authors
“Stop Loss”
By Kelly Ward
“Dumpling Night”
By Jessica Westhead
“Our Many-Splendoured Humanity”
By Jessica Westhead
“Steak and Eggs”
By Jessica Westhead
“Smother the Others”
By Kathleen Whelan
“The Worst Kind of People”
By Zoe Whittall
“Break and Enter”
By David Whitton
“The Eclipse”
By David Whitton
“Gargoyles”
By David Whitton
“Robin”
By David Whitton
“Amnesia”
By Alana Wilcox
“Jardin Botanique“
By Judith Williams
“Bunkie”
By Julie Wilson
“Pitched”
By Julie Wilson
“So This is How it Happens”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun
“The Benefit”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun
“Thirteen”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun
THE LOST & Found DEPT.
“The Testimony of Carl Sanders, Inventor of the Microchip”
“Eric’s Top Ten Reasons for Changing His E-mail Address”
By Eric Squair
THE ILLUSTRATED FICTION
“I Love You”
By Pascal Blanchet
“Afterlife”
By J. Bone
“Socially Inept”
By Nina Bunjevac
“Jame’s Joyces Three Requirements for a Productive Artistic Life”
By David Collier
“My Name is Eunice Jung”
By Michael Cho
“Night Time”
By Michael Cho
“Stars”
By Michael Cho
“Trinity”
By Michael Cho
“The Grass Seed”
By Claudia Dávila
“The Portal”
By Alan Hunt
“A Really Special Summer”
By Christopher Hutsul
“Kieffer’s Krunchy Korniçhóns”
By Jason Kieffer
“Why, Zanta? Why?”
By Jason Kieffer
“Sunset Eckler”
By Brett Lamb
“Bughouse”
By Dave Lapp
“Mouse Girl”
By Dave Lapp
“Movie Night”
By Joe Ollmann
“Personal Space”
By Joe Ollmann
“Funnybabyland”
By Steven Charles Manale
“Left!”
By Steven Charles Manale
“Orc with Glasses”
By Steven Charles Manale
“Heinous scabus eaticus”
By Rachelle Maynard
“Fad to Grey”
By Brian McLachlan
“Therefore Repent!”
By Jim Munroe, Salgood Sam
“21st Century Soviet Scientist Predictions”
By Ian Phillips
“Ex Montreal”
By Ethan Rilly
“Caught”
By Fiona Smyth
“Knows Swonk”
By Fiona Smyth
“Toiletries for Tugboats”
By Jason Turner
“Chicken or the Egg”
By Zach Worton
“Do You Have Any Bee Stories?”
By Rajo Zakic
THE Literary Activism DEPT.
“Past Due”
By Jim Munroe
THE Profiles
Sonja Ahlers
Bunny heads and stranger things: the wandering eye of Sonja Ahlers.
By Rachel Pulfer
Jason Anderson
An arts writer, a keyboardist, and a filmmaker walk into a book deal. The result is Anderson’s comedic debut novel.
By Alex Mlynek
Tamara Faith Berger
Is her work highbrow fiction or lowbrow smut? Does it matter?
By Emily Pohl-Weary
Dan Burke
The music promoter and former journalist reinvents himself.
By Jay Somerset
Chris Chambers
Local poet is ready to put his goldfish on a wagon and show it to the world.
By David Alan Barry
Evie Christie
The poet discusses her first novel and trying her hand at writing for the stage.
By Meaghan Strimas
Kevin Connolly
With Drift, his third collection, the poet Kevin Connolly continues to hone his complex intellect, biting wit, and sense of the absurd.
By Rachel Pulfer
Lynn Crosbie
The author Lynn Crosbie discusses the controversy surrounding her latest book, Paul’s Case.
By Kerri Huffman
Flipped Out Phil
For fourteen years, Flipped Out Phil restored the sanctity of the radio D.J. across Montreal’s airwaves.
By Tim Davin
Merle Foster
Merle Foster’s studio wasn’t a toy shop, but it was still magical to the children of the Ward.
By Terry Murray
Elyse Friedman
Elyse Friedman followed her lucky star to a successful career as an author, poet, screenwriter, and, maybe someday, an artist.
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew
Camilla Gibb
The author Camilla Gibb transforms from first-time novelist to writer with The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life.
By Rebecca Caldwell
Lee Henderson
By following his own path, Lee Henderson has emerged as the freshest voice in CanLit.
By Mark Medley
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs persuaded us to rethink cities. Her new book warns us to rethink societies, or else.
By Alfred Holden
Lauren Kirshner
Everyday objects trigger inspiration for the author Lauren Kirshner.
By Amy Stupavsky
Dave Lapp
The cartoonist revisits a dark time with the collected publication of Children of the Atom.
By Peter Birkmoe
Joe Matt
Meet Joe Matt, indie comics’ answer to nerd rock.
By Conan Tobias
Derek McCormack
Toronto’s midnight cowboy rises from the gutter with a new book to scare up readers.
By Conan Tobias
Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe challenges science fiction forms and political apathy in Angry Young Spaceman.
By Kerri Huffman
Mysterion
A Ph.D. in E.S.P. has treated the local illusionist and mind reader better than an M.B.A.
By Liisa Ladouceur
Hal Niedzviecki
Canada’s self-defined indie guru faces adulthood, fatherhood, and a growing generation gap.
By Lauren McKeon
Grace O’Connell
What happens when a twelve-year-old girl gets hold of The Handmaid’s Tale.
By Heather Hogan
Emily Pohl-Weary
The author Emily Pohl-Weary discusses demystifying the magazine-making process, her family’s sci-fi past, and why mainstream culture isn’t always a bad thing.
By Alex Mlynek
Stuart Ross
The author and poet explores his family history and his own emotions in his upcoming collection, Razovsky at Peace.
By Kerri Huffman
Emily Schultz
With a new book of short stories, a successful series of chapbooks, and the editor’s chair of Broken Pencil, Emily Schultz scores a D.I.Y. hat trick.
By Joanne Huffa
Patricia Seaman
Patricia Seaman makes herself laugh, and her readers dance.
By Kerri Huffman
Rosemary Sullivan
The Toronto biographer dances through the life of Margaret Atwood in The Red Shoes.
By Kerri Huffman
R. M. Vaughan
The Troubled adventures of a suffering trickster.
By Sally McKay and Von Bark
Paul Vermeersch
In his new collection, the poet Paul Vermeersch stands up for the beaten, the bullied, the misunderstood.
By Kerri Huffman
Darren Wershler-Henry
Collaboration is the medium of Darren Wershler-Henry’s message.
By Rachel Pulfer
City Building
“Are You ‘Modern’ or ‘Borax’?”
How John and Joanne Brook and their furniture store pulled Toronto into a new age.
By Alfred Holden
“Dupont at Zenith”
An overdue memorial to the forgotten achievements of Toronto’s twentieth-century avenue of enterprise.
By Alfred Holden
“Fake Authenticity”
The de-evolution of Toronto’s street signs attempts to showcase their magestic past, but instead displays an uninspired future.
By Alfred Holden, Conan Tobias
“Pillar of Community”
Jane Jacobs persuaded us to rethink cities. Her new book warns us to rethink societies, or else.
By Alfred Holden
“The Forgotten Stream”
Or is it? Taddle Creek, once the pride of the University of Toronto’s landscape, may be poised for a comeback.
By Alfred Holden
“The Paper Pompeii”
Imagination was the cornerstone of Beaver, a metropolis of skyscrapers, mad industrialists, and a game called “fraughpp.”
By Alfred Holden
“Peeling Back the Layers”
Toronto has bigger parks, even better parks, but few work as hard as Taddle Creek Park.
By Alfred Holden
“Plastic Patches and Cat’s Eyes”
Like most cities, Toronto embraced progress and the motor age. Unlike most, it had doubts.
By Alfred Holden
“The Playground War”
“Danger!,” screamed the school trustees, as they tore down the monkey bars.
By Alfred Holden
“The Streamlined Man”
Percy Faith smoothed out rock, jazzed the classics, and became one of the most important musicians Canada has produced.
By Alfred Holden
“This Fabulous Place”
You wouldn’t think of an aging apartment house as a good place to put down roots. Think again.
By Alfred Holden
“This Once-Fabulous Place”
How a landlord’s lack of vision led to the destruction of one of Toronto’s great architectural monuments.
By Alfred Holden
“Those Were the Days”
Despite his passing, Uno Prii’s philosophy of city living lives on in the apartment houses he left behind.
By Alfred Holden
THE CITY
“A Destination Apart”
Unlike its Toronto counterpart, Montreal’s art deco masterpiece still needs a saviour.
By Sarah Gilbert
“Zine Machine”
Cutting out the middleman.
By Jenn Hardy
“A Better (Sub)way?”
The T.T.C. is forgetting its history—in more ways than one.
By Alfred Holden
“Gods and Monsters”
Terry Murray surfed webs both modern and old to tell the grotesque story of Toronto.
By Alfred Holden
“Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006”
Remembering Toronto’s great urban thinker.
By Alfred Holden
“Revelation”
Gerstein is worth exploring.
By Jennifer Marston
“Secret Admirer”
Lindsay Zier-Vogel spreads the love with the Love Lettering Project.
By Jacqueline Nelson
“The Better Way”
A local typographer has done his part to preserve one of Toronto’s small charms.
By Conan Tobias
“Got Brains?”
Toronto zombies walk the walk. Slowly.
By Conan Tobias
“Hand Finished”
From cat pans to lingerie, Honest Ed’s offers the most artful bargains in town.
By Conan Tobias
“Hey! It’s for Horses”
Saint John’s equine population can’t get a drop to drink.
By Conan Tobias
“His Cartoonish Majesty Requests”
Seth’s obsessions take on a new dimension.
By Conan Tobias
“Boom Times”
Sonic Boom makes art with a homemade touch.
By Laura Tretheway
THE ESSAY
“Neighbourhood Watch”
All communities have stories to tell. Montreal’s Mile End is no exception.
By Sarah Gilbert
“Beautiful Anomaly”
The century-old Sylvan has much to teach about city living.
By Lauren Kirshner
“The Fog of Memory”
Some of Digby Neck’s villages are more adept at regaining their lost urbanity than others.
By Shawn Micallef
“Totem Poll”
Good design is still a T.T.C. keystone.
By Conan Tobias
THE DEPT. OF ETERNAL REJECTION
“Submission Hold”
By Nathaniel G. Moore
THE ISLAND OF MISFIT CHAPTERS DEPT.
“Candy”
The lost chapter to Christmas Days.
By Derek McCormack
THE USE YOUR BRAINS, DON’T EAT THEM DEPT.
“Halloween ABCs”
A selective history of the scariest night of the year—from All Hallows to zombies.
By Derek McCormack
THE WAR OF THE WORDS DEPT.
“Slim Curiosity”
The Varsity Chapbook was an elegant early step in Toronto’s literary development.
By Conan Tobias
THE Gallery
“Down in the Alley”
Toronto’s little-seen laneways can be dynamic.
By Michael Cho, Matthew Blackett
“Concrete Forest”
Animal Effigy lets city dwellers become virtual coureurs de bois.
By Dani Couture, Jackie Linton
“Aesthetics”
Karen Eull bridges the gap between old-school art and modern technology.
By Karen Eull, Conan Tobias
“We Are Amused”
The Victorian of the Month Club brings aristocracy to the bourgeoisie.
By Kristi-Ly Green, Conan Tobias
“Night of the Sewist”
Two local artists prove you’re never too old for trick-or-treat.
By Grant Heaps, Ian Phillips, Conan Tobias, Thomas Blanchard
“Fake Authenticity”
The de-evolution of Toronto’s street signs attempts to showcase their magestic past, but instead displays an uninspired future.
By Alfred Holden, Conan Tobias
“Art Waiting To Happen”
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Greg Holman’s are worth four thousand.
By Greg Holman, Conan Tobias
“This Ain’t Your Hippie Jesus’s Bible”
Viewing scripture through a glass less dark.
By Dave Lapp, Jeet Heer
“Photopunk”
Jack Martin captures the vitality and the spontaneity of Toronto’s club scene.
By Jack Martin, Jason Anderson
“Tragic Hero”
Saint John long struggled for identity and purpose. It some ways, it still is.
By Ian MacEachern, Tony Tobias
“Imperfect Clarity”
The strong yet simple aesthetic of Doublenaut.
By Andrew and Matt McCracken, Jackie Linton
“Trial By Fire”
Using traditional Craftsmanship to create art with a moderne flair.
By Blair McLean, Kasey Coholan
“The Duke”
Previously unseen photographs candidly show Duke Ellington at his peak.
By Claude Miles, Conan Tobias
“Art On the Line”
Tel-Talk gives a last hurrah to a fading piece of street furniture.
By Jacqueline Nelson
“The Art of Sport”
Remembering Lou Skuce, “Canada’s greatest cartoonist.”
By Lou Skuce, Conan Tobias
“The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye”
An artist faces the absurdities of aging, in a most absurd place.
By R. M. Vaughan, Sholem Krishtalka
PEOPLE AROUND HERE
Anniversary Story
By Dave Lapp
Art Gallery of Ontario Summer Camp
By Dave Lapp
Avenue Road Arts School
By Dave Lapp
Cameron House
By Dave Lapp
College Park
By Dave Lapp
The Green Room
By Dave Lapp
Isabella Street
By Dave Lapp
Jet Fuel Coffee Shop
By Dave Lapp
My Town Restaurant
By Dave Lapp
Manulife Centre
By Dave Lapp
On the Subway
By Dave Lapp
Port Burwell, Ontario
By Dave Lapp
Sad Music
By Dave Lapp
Taddle Creek Barbeque
By Dave Lapp
Toronto Humane Society
By Dave Lapp
York Square Lobby
By Dave Lapp
THE EPHEMERA
“About the Type”
The rebirths of Stillson and Toronto Subway.
“All About E”
Capitalizing “E-mail.”
“An Apology”
Capitalizing “Web” and “Internet.”
“Because It’s Korrect”
Initialisms and acronyms.
“The Diaeresis Divide”
What's the deal with the New Yorker’s umlaut?
“Fact for Fiction”
Fact-checking fiction and poetry.
“Game Over”
On italicizing the titles of video games.
“Grammar Is Not Dead”
Why God deserves as much respect as an overweight cat.
“Molasses: The Ultimate Treat”
A special Halloween rant.
“The Period”
One space good, two spaces bad.
“Regrets, Taddle Creek Has Had a Few”
The corrections.
“Semi-Correct”
“Bi-” vs. “semi-.”
“The Taddle Creek List of Frequently Asked Questions”
THE Poems
“Forsythia”
By Ian Allaby
“S.A.S.E.”
By Sandra Alland
“Gwendolyn MacEwen Park”
By Karen L. L. Anderson
“Mid-week Cable”
By Joel Baker
“Furnace Coat”
By Gary Barwin
“The Porcupinity of the Stars”
By Gary Barwin
“Testing Pattern”
By Gary Barwin
“If I Were Burt Reynolds”
By Karyn Bonham
“A Glimpse of My Bright Life in the Morning”
By Alex Boyd
“Inventory of a Basement Apartment, After Being Evicted”
By Alex Boyd
“Tomorrow at Ten”
By Alex Boyd
“Two Thirteen-Line Poems on How We Need a New Poem”
By Alex Boyd
“Awkward D.J.”
By Chris Chambers
“Dave Cook”
By Chris Chambers
“Drive In Dream”
By Chris Chambers
“Elements of Daydreams”
By Chris Chambers
“Getting Started”
By Chris Chambers
“Good Old Daze”
By Chris Chambers
“Mexico City”
By Chris Chambers
“Pigeon III”
By Chris Chambers
“Spring Poem”
By Chris Chambers
“Stranger Here”
By Chris Chambers
“Ventilator”
By Chris Chambers
“Visiting Ours”
By Chris Chambers
“Visit to Queen’s Park”
By Chris Chambers
“Shopping”
By Margaret Christakos
“All You Need is Lorazepam”
By Evie Christie
“Folding Clothes”
By Evie Christie
“Handful”
By Evie Christie
“The Nights We Spend with Others”
By Evie Christie
“What We Leave Behind”
By Evie Christie
“Battleships”
By Michael Christie
“Lapse”
By Kevin Connolly
“Plenty”
By Kevin Connolly
“Summer’s End”
By E. M. Courtemanche
“Dawn of the Dead, Revisited”
By Dani Couture
“Midnight Grocery Shopping After Watching Days and Days of Viking Week on the History Channel”
By Dani Couture
“Pumpkin Patch”
By Dani Couture
“The Threat of the Comfort Inn”
By Dani Couture
“Liar”
By Lynn Crosbie
“If I Were an Eggplant”
By Trevor Davis
“Tea with Satan”
By Trevor Davis
“The Quick”
By William A. Davison
“Bicycles”
By John Degen
“In Manhattan One Evening with the Reverend Al Sharpton”
By John Degen
“River”
By John Degen
“Smelt”
By John Degen
“Spring”
By John Degen
“To the Beautiful Men in Soho, with Whom I Rode the Elevator”
By John Degen
“Walking Up the Trebovir Road, Thinking You Might Not Be Pregnant”
By John Degen
“Secret Origins”
By Stephanie Earp
“Cappuccinos for the Planet”
By Jesse Patrick Ferguson
“The Kind of Man”
By Elyse Friedman
“Shostakovich Blaring”
By Beth Follett
“Road Signs”
By Dayle Furlong
“The Invention of Tennis”
By Amy Gaizauskas
“Fish Bones”
By Nancy Gobatto
“Heavy without Heavy Rain”
By Catherine Graham
“Dreams of the Donkeys”
By Katia Grubisic
“A List Before Departure”
By Katia Grubisic
“Contempt”
By Jason Guriel
“Satisfying Clicking Sound”
By Jason Guriel
“Some Kind of Man”
By Jason Guriel
“Somewhere in the Piano”
By Jason Guriel
“Home Address”
By Julie Hartley
“The Origin of the Species”
By Beatriz Hausner
“The Night I Took Benicio Del Toro to Bed”
By Kerri Huffman
“The Scarf”
By Kerri Leigh Huffman
“Procyon lotor”
By Rose Hunter
“As Louis Dudek, In Love”
By Jim Johnstone
“October Country”
By Sandra Kasturi
“Apostrophe (You Are Entirely Happy With Your Poem)”
By Bill Kennedy, Darren Wershler-Henry
“Afterthought”
By Susan Kernohan
“Tilt”
By Sabina Kim
“Tupelo”
By Lauren Kirshner
“Pyro”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Reading Ma Jian on the Farm”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Body”
By James Lindsay
“Day Room”
By James Lindsay
“They Have a Music”
By James Lindsay
“Windows Are the Opposite of Mirrors”
By James Lindsay
“The Perfect Victim”
By Michael Lista
“Beauty Killer Poem No. 2: La Doctora Surveys Her Clientele”
By Jennifer LoveGrove
“Clairvoyant”
By Jennifer LoveGrove
“Or-”
By Jennifer LoveGrove
“Ghost Stories”
By Ruth Mandel
“April”
By Deanna McFadden
“Johnny Cash”
By Deanna McFadden
“Johnny Cash II”
By Deanna McFadden
“Midnight, Lee’s Palace”
By Deanna McFadden
“Meditation on a Nineteen-sixties Dress Pattern”
By Catherine McGuire
“New Texas”
By Chris Michalski
“Letter to a Friend”
By Susana Molinolo
“Death in Venice”
By Mary Ann Moore
“The Boxer”
By George Murray
“Nothing: A Haiku”
By George Murray
“Everything Has a Reason”
By Peter Norman
“Freight”
By Peter Norman
“Ida Red”
By Kathleen Olmstead
“Morning Observation No. 49”
By Kathleen Olmstead
“Seasonal Wishes From Northern Quebec”
By Kathleen Olmstead
“There Was Something That We Did in Jackson”
By Kathleen Olmstead
“A Night Like Many Others”
By Marguerite Pigeon
“Best Violin”
By Emily Pohl-Weary
“What I Learned Growing Up in Parkdale”
By Emily Pohl-Weary
“On Saturday Night”
By K. I. Press
“Be Careful, It’s My Heart”
By Patrick Rawley
“Booze Can”
By Patrick Rawley
“Invisibilism”
By Patrick Rawley
“Horse”
By Patrick Rawley
“Old School”
By Patrick Rawley
“Twenty Bucks”
By Patrick Rawley
“How I Got To Sleep”
By Michael Redhill
“Funeral”
By Sandra Ridley
“Orlando”
By Stan Rogal
“The New Monuments”
By Damian Rogers
“Invitation to Love”
By Stuart Ross
“My Lapel”
By Stuart Ross
“Road Trip, Southern Ontario, 1999”
By Stuart Ross
“Where Have All the Johnny Cowboys Gone”
By Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg
“You Are Here”
By Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg
“Black Cat Gum”
By Emily Schultz
“Just Before the Night Ripped Open Like a Sash”
By Emily Schultz
“Winter Sticking Its Tongue to a Pole”
By Emily Schultz
“Two Minutes (One Hundred Twenty Per Hour)”
By Emily Schultz
“Barrel Fires”
By Carolyn Smart
“Felt Like Cryin’”
By John Stiles
“An Old Broad’s Belongings”
By Meghan Strimas
“Heads We Win, Tails You Lose”
By Matthew Tierney
“Utopia”
By Matthew Tierney
“A Wise Host Snuffs a Guttering Candle”
By R. M. Vaughan
“From My Spell Diary”
By R. M. Vaughan
“Mint”
By R. M. Vaughan
“Palm Springs Stories No. 1”
By R. M. Vaughan
“Tree”
By R. M. Vaughan
“Between the Walls”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Cherry Blossoms in an Orchard”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Hands”
By Paul Vermeersch
“The L-Bomb”
By Paul Vermeersch
“The Purple Nurple”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Rare Aphrodisiac”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Rubble”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Smoke”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Sugar Transformed By the Sun”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Take 1 Tablet(s) Daily”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Klezmer Music on Christmas Eve”
By Myna Wallin
“The Inevitability of Time”
By Victoria Ward
“Augusta Could Be a Woman the Driver is Trying to Find”
By Adrienne Weiss
“Christmas is a Black Coat”
By Adrienne Weiss
“Magnificent Things Surely Will Come”
By Adrienne Weiss
“A Member of the Wait Staff Delivers a Glass of Ice to Oprah”
By Adrienne Weiss
“Plug into the Faithless”
By Adrienne Weiss
“The Straw Man”
By Adrienne Weiss
“Surrender Dorothy”
By Adrienne Weiss
“There Are No Solid Gold Dancers Anymore”
By Adrienne Weiss
“Untitled, by Zelda Sayre”
By Adrienne Weiss
“With Pink Eye”
By Zoe Whittall
“Anomia: Fragments Toward a Grammar of Endings”
An excerpt.
By Alana Wilcox
“Broken Love Poem”
By Alexandra Wilder
“Nest of Sisters”
By Alexandra Wilder
“The Want Monster”
By Alexandra Wilder
“Spasm of the Revolver”
By Christina Winchur
“The Thin Blue Line of the Ocean”
By Christina Winchur
“Caldera”
By Elana Wolff
“Conceit”
By Elana Wolff
Étude for Four Hands”
By Elana Wolff
“Helleborus”
By Elana Wolff
“Hoop”
By Elana Wolff
“Modes”
By Elana Wolff
“Plum”
By Elana Wolff
“Stephanotis”
By Elana Wolff
“The Stunt Bear, the Bell Tree”
By Elana Wolff
“Sui Generis“
By Elana Wolff
“Toque”
By Elana Wolff
“Alice Vichenroff”
By Lindsay Zier-Vogel
“A Miracle Somehow”
By Lindsay Zier-Vogel
“Letters to Amelia Earhart”
By Lindsay Zier-Vogel
The Taddle Creek Disc of Laser-Light Reflected Sound
Audio fiction and poetry by Chris Chambers, Camilla Gibb, and Paul Vermeersch in downloadable MP3 format.
The Taddle Creek Electronic Paper-Substitute Issue
Downloadable fiction and poetry by Alex Boyd, Andrew Daley, John Degen, Catherine Duchastel, Andrew Loung, Stuart Ross, and Mary-Lou Zeitoun.
THE TADDLE CREEK TALKING MAGAZINE
Audio versions of every story in the magazine’s summer, 2008, issue, in downloadable MP3 format.
