Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter Maybe Yes, Maybe No by Helen Mason Tuesday Morning by Eva-Maria Ehrhardt My Kind Father by Nasser Yousefi Walled Up by Ivan deMonbrison Morning Star by Chantal Lavoie My Deer Eye by James Moran Kashmiri Pulav by Abhishek Udaykumar The Last First FridayContinue reading “Autumn 2024 WCLJ Table of Contents”
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WordCity Literary Journal. Our Final Collection
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Dear Readers, Welcome to our final issue of WordCity Literary Journal, the Mental Health Issue. Fittingly, it’s not for lack of success, but for the sake of my own mental wellness, that I’m bringing our beloved journal to a close. And yes, I am seeingContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. Our Final Collection”
Autumn 2024. Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack
Dear Readers, Welcome to our final issue of WordCity Literary Journal, the Mental Health Issue. Fittingly, it’s not for lack of success, but for the sake of my own mental wellness, that I’m bringing our beloved journal to a close. And yes, I am seeing a therapist. We began WordCity in the autumn of 2020,Continue reading “Autumn 2024. Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack”
Dead Dog in a Time Machine. Fiction by Abbigale Kernya
Dead Dog in a Time Machine December 12, 2021 I’m up to my neck with all the love I never got to give you. I don’t know how to give it back. A bubble from the beige water jug behind the pews rises in rhythm with the gasps from your mother. My blackContinue reading “Dead Dog in a Time Machine. Fiction by Abbigale Kernya”
Psychedelics and Mental Health. Non-fiction by Gordon Phinn
Psychedelics and Mental Health Years ago, I had the great good fortune to come across a short yet comprehensive cultural history of madness and its treatments as a review assignment for a literary journal. Roy Porter’s Madness, A Short History, while barely 50,000 words, felt almost encyclopedic, such was the grasp of this professorContinue reading “Psychedelics and Mental Health. Non-fiction by Gordon Phinn”
Maybe Yes, Maybe No. A Novella by Helen Mason
Maybe Yes, Maybe No Chapter 1 I’m sitting in one of my favourite places, our balcony overlooking Mud Lake. Afternoon rays warm my skin. A green smell wafts up from the trees that stretch as high as my floor. Birds I don’t recognize sing nearby. For once, the loud voices in the apartments around meContinue reading “Maybe Yes, Maybe No. A Novella by Helen Mason”
Tuesday Morning. Fiction by Eva-Maria Ehrhardt
Tuesday morning It’s been one of these mornings. The best laid-out plans could not meet their goal. Instead of getting ready and going to the mother-child group where your child could play and interact with other children of the same age and where you, the mum, could meet up with other mums– talk to adults,Continue reading “Tuesday Morning. Fiction by Eva-Maria Ehrhardt”
My Kind Father. Fiction by Nasser Yousefi
My Kind Father Good morning, dear father of mine… What?… Yeah… I slept well last night… a lot. I had some funny dreams too… How about you? Wow, what a wonderful breakfast you prepared… bread… cheese… walnuts… milk… tomatoes… I adore these breakfasts that you make for me every day… What?… You like the smellContinue reading “My Kind Father. Fiction by Nasser Yousefi”
Walled up. Fiction by Ivan deMonbrison
Painting: White shade n°21 Walled up – You know that you should never reveal anything about you, that is to THEM. – This is what we should always all be able to do, whatever it might take. – Just never stop hiding out from them, to finally become totally undetectable. And in order to doContinue reading “Walled up. Fiction by Ivan deMonbrison”
Morning Star. Fiction by Chantal Lavoie
Morning Star Caked in rich mud, it lies in the husband’s gloved hand, plucked from the garden with an accidental carrot and a deliberate handful of weeds. It smells green. He hoses it off at the side of the house and carries it into the kitchen. He hands it to her, her own hand comingContinue reading “Morning Star. Fiction by Chantal Lavoie”
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