A MODEST PROPOSAL For Sending Alberta Children Back To School Since there is a growing number of COVID-19 cases among the province’s school-age population, our proposal suggests closing schools immediately and forming a test group to better determine and predict future rates of infection. First, we highly recommend engaging in the test group, the childrenContinue reading “A Modest Proposal. Satire by Anne Sorbie”
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Still. Short Fiction by Jenn Ashton
Still (reprinted with permission by Tidewater Press) A few times a year I start to feel the walls closing in. The house seems smaller and I realize that it’s probably getting too cluttered in here. Although I watched Marie Kondo’s program on decluttering religiously and even bought the book, the habits did not completely formContinue reading “Still. Short Fiction by Jenn Ashton”
The Piano. Short fiction by by Janice MacDonald
The Piano The nuns were amazingly accommodating of her mother, a Protestant divorcee, who couldn’t get through traffic to pick her up till after four. Normally, girls at the convent school didn’t start piano lessons right away, but they called the music teacher, who ran her through some exercises, pronounced her musical and agreed toContinue reading “The Piano. Short fiction by by Janice MacDonald”
Timeless Memories by Joshua Akemecha. A review by Edward A. Ayugho
FROM TIMELESS MEMORIES TO TIMELESS INSIGHTS: A REVIEW OF JOSHUA AKEMECHA’S TIMELESS MEMORIES AT ITS LAUNCH ON FRIDAY 8TH JULY 2016 IN BAMENDA, BY EDWARD A. AYUGHO INTRODUCTION Society constitutes the field in poetry for the poet who knows to reap his literary grain from the tares that are sowed there. E.E Hale Jr.Continue reading “Timeless Memories by Joshua Akemecha. A review by Edward A. Ayugho”
Poetry by William S. Peters
A poem for the dead “I die daily” It is not as if I planned on dying . . . At least not at this time, But I, we always knew That death always lurked In the white shadows Of our lives Our hues and pigmentation Was a non-red flag That signaled our presence AndContinue reading “Poetry by William S. Peters”
Poetry by Diana Manole
Bliss Molecules To COVID-19 Survivors The smell of water, fresh water, seawater, dead water, marshes and streams, water carrying her away— folded, squished rocked on the tides of a second Noah’s flood come true, no ark in sight, no piece of timber randomly afloat, all expectations lowered to the basics “Lower her!” “Turn her!” “HoldContinue reading “Poetry by Diana Manole”
Poetry by Heidi Greco
Flyer We were grumbling again about the long isolation loud enough to trade complaints with the tenant next door, her stamp- size balcony butting up to ours, neighbourly enough, in the realm of concrete condos high above the world on the 21st floor (privileged as we know we are), the ocean merely blocks away, ourContinue reading “Poetry by Heidi Greco”
Poetry by Tim Suermondt
LONGEVITY The city and I have gotten older. When we walk arm-in-arm now for the sake of walking this is as good as it gets and we see clearer than ever before, as if looking through strange, new eyes—what lucidity. Here’s the dusk spooling over the avenue, slowly both closing it down and opening itContinue reading “Poetry by Tim Suermondt”
Hybrid Poetry by Mbizo Chirasha
MIDNIGHT MONOLOGUES (thought tracks on bad politics, quarantine, exile and isolation) * (i). I smell the heavy scent of the night, pitch black night It is sunset on the foothills of my country, I smell the heavy scent of the pitch-black night, pitch black night coils into this tired land feigning its darkness pitch-blackContinue reading “Hybrid Poetry by Mbizo Chirasha”
Poetry by Lisa Reynolds
Normal in a Covid World He tells me it’s normal to feel anxious everyone is these days. I want to believe him but as his pen dances across a thick prescription pad I wonder if I’m the only one barely hanging on. Pretender I pretend my illness doesn’t exist until I am reminded byContinue reading “Poetry by Lisa Reynolds”
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