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When I reached out for book recommendations, I was happy to learn about this historical fiction...
The other day, as I pulled lids off bins marked Tree Only and Family Room and rummaged...
I’ve not been a big memoir reader over the years, but when this one was recommended to me, I was...
Sonder: the realization that each random passerby has a life as vivid as complex as your own.  ...
I was raised in Widow Town. That wasn't the actual name of the town, of course, but that was...
Short Stories
Diva watched a row of dentures pop into place on her phone screen. Her father was usually...
Newsletter
When life gives you a metaphor, it's time to take notice. I was working in my backyard a...
I recently discovered Jessica Strawser through Tall Poppy Writers, a woman's author collective...
Short Stories
  No one called Adula strong. They sometimes said she was nice, or crafty, or shy. They...
her worries were splattered across her kitchen floor splotches and blobs of hazy colours that...
Short Stories
She charged two hundred dollars per commission. Most were easy, photographs of children inside a...
While Women Talking is a work of fiction by acclaimed author, Miriam Toews, it was written in...
Miriam Toews has been one of my favourite novelists since I read A Complicated Kindness some...
I've traveled to quite a few places in my lifetime, but there are two continents that I haven't...
I love to learn about history through novels. In my mind, facts and dates get blurry pretty...
At first, I wasn't sure if I could read this book. But I'm so glad that I did. Scarborough...
Her fur coat was warm against the child's skin It wasn't real fur, of course but it was soft...
Poetry
You came to me once in that apartment on Wardlaw it was a few months after you left, not quite...
Poetry
It's hard to look without my eyes the crusty lids are sealed shut with tainted memories ...
The dandelion stem is long too long for it to stand so straight but the tall grass props it...
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