Excerpt from GULCH, “Poemagogy”
Poemagogy ::::: Adebe D.A. Traffic sweat drips flashing whiz children with red lips neon age, yellow hallways no decor just wind: the age of reason. I tried to reason with a lamppost whatcha burning...
View ArticleExcerpt from Your Love is Murder, “Shark”
Shark A boy was playing hide-and-seek in the backyard with his sister and her friend. The boy, in an attempt to be impossible to find, went round to the driveway and hod under his father’s spirt...
View ArticleExcerpt from Tell Your Sister
Tell Your Sister His dark hair still wet from the shower, Aaron Fenn ran through the buoyant have of a deep blue autumn morning. In a town of inclines and subtly divisions, Millward Secondary stood in...
View ArticleExcerpt from Fortune Cookie, “January”
Friday, January 20, 1989 Montreal St. Agnes’s Eve – a night when young women dream of future happenings … In the dying days of the Year of the Dragon, Washington inaugurates a new President. He speaks...
View ArticleExcerpt from Be Good, “Prologue”
Prologue: Morgan Encoding refers to the initial perception and registration of information. Storage is the retention of encoded information over time. Retrieval refers to the processes involved in...
View ArticleExcerpt After the Fires, “Memory Lapse at the Waterfront”
Memory Lapse at the Waterfront Dear Jolene, I am sitting under the tree writing to you. How are you? Well I hope. Over here things are usual. The paper shortage is getting worse and worse, which is why...
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Freeing Your Erotic Self in Poetry or Prose with Myna Wallin
Saturday, April 16, 2011 12-5 p.m. Tightrope Books Office (602 Markham Street, Toronto) $50 “I want to know them well, intimately. I have to be able to describe them.” ~The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume...
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The Girl on the Escalator | Jim Nason
ISBN-10:1-926639-35-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-926639-35-2 Price: $19.95 Pub Date: Spring 2011 From critically acclaimed poet and novelist Jim Nason comes a collection of vivid and affecting stories about the...
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Roll With It | Heather J Wood
ISBN-10: 1-926639-34-0 ISBN-13: 978-1926639345 Price: $17.95 Pub Date: June 2011 Figure skater turned roller derby girl Neddy will bowl you over in Heather Wood’s uplifting book about growing up and...
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Prick: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist – Ashley Little
ISBN-10: 1-926639-38-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-926639-38-3 Price: $19.95 Pub Date: Fall 2011 In this crackling debut, Ashley Little creates a new anti-hero — one whose audacity is matched by his...
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WOLF IN A BEAVER COAT – ROSARIO LLORET
ISBN-13: 978-1926639710 PRICE: $21.95 In his darkest hour, the night in which his son, Amorak, is stranded in the middle of an Arctic snowstorm, Jimmy Whitefox, a First Nation elder from the Northwest...
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I Thought I Would Be Happy – Jim Nason
PRICE $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639604 A modern-day Greek tragedy, I Thought I Would Be Happy revolves around Marco Morelli, an aspiring filmmaker with a passion for heights. Set in New York, Toronto, and...
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Keep It Beautiful – Kelly Ward
PRICE: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639628 This debut collection of stories teems with characters just on the fringe of the mainstream, and each story examines the mundane and abject sides of normalcy. A...
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Standing in the Whale’s Jaw – Kathy-Diane Leveille
PRICE: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1926639611 Fifteen-year-old Elsa Byrd is on the verge of becoming a woman in the summer of 1935. It seems to her that, in a world run by men, coming of age is more of a...
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The Voices in Between – Charlene Challenger
PRICE: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1-926639-79-6 Adoni is a teenaged girl who lives in a downtown apartment with her mother, an emotionally and physically abusive woman who drinks too much. One evening, Adoni...
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I Am Currently Working on a Novel—Rolli
Price: $21.95 ISBN: 9781926639734 The more than 70 stories in I Am Currently Working on a Novel are as diverse as a telephone conversation or your average ocean. There are stories set in Hollywood,...
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Dirty Bird – Keir Lowther
ISBN: 9781926639529 PRICE: $18 – Special sale to celebrate the book’s win of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award CBC Literary Award finalist Keir Lowther makes his debut with a novel that...
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Fatty Goes to China – Royston Tester
ISBN-10: 1926639480 ISBN-13: 978-1926639482 Price: $21.95 Written in original, humorous, and innovative ways, these 11 richly varied stories expose the risks in finding shelter in unaccommodating...
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Commander Zero – David Neil Lee
ISBN-10: 1926639472 ISBN-13: 978-1926639475 Price: $19.95 Found unconscious on a remote road in the coastal rain forest, Joseph Windebank is badly injured, water-soaked, and near death. After being...
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Like I Care – Stephen Guppy
ISBN 9781926639536 Price: $21.95 Like I Care is set in Vancouver a year or two into the future, when everything is just like it is now, apart from the invasion of monsters from Japanese Horror movies,...
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