[hear the author read this piece by clicking this link.] Of all natural disasters, landslides are more devastating than most people realize. Worse, they are often triggered by other natural disasters, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Scientists refer to this as the multi-hazard effect. In one of the deadliest landslides of the last […]
[hear the author read this piece by clicking this link.] Their hosts in the south of France, the Clayburns, had asked Roger and his wife not to bring the babies with them. But Malcolm was only two-and-a-half, and Travis just six months. Roger and Claire felt they didn’t have much choice. Or Claire felt […]
Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing something. —Judith Butler, Undoing Gender Part One When I was in my twenties, I had a friend who was overweight. He wasn’t, as we say now, morbidly obese, and he didn’t look like those people wearing Bermuda shorts and flip-flops […]
[hear the author read this piece by clicking this link.] A verb may well conceal a noun. A noun may conceal a fiddler beetle. A beetle may conceal an agnostic. An agnostic may conceal a shepherd’s pie. A shepherd may conceal your mother-in-law. Your mother-in-law may conceal a can of pineapple rings. Or she […]
[hear the author read this piece by clicking this link.] He doesn’t know you anymore. The hillside nursing home took his name. Scattered over the valley’s rooftops, it glitters off asphalt shingles in the heat. You’re here, in the hallway, too singular to grasp this dispersal. It won’t stop lapping over the lip of […]
Featured poetry from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue.
Featured nonfiction from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue.
Featured fiction from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue. Winner of the 2011 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction.
Featured poetry from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue.
Featured poetry from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue.