Greetings, dear readers!
I’m currently writing this editorial in Montréal at my family’s dinner table with the back door open and a slight breeze rustling papers next to me. It’s still a bit brisk with spring on its way out but I’ve been admiring the recently bloomed peonies in our garden.
By Sarah Brown
The eggs for the girls came from far away. Those girls with their unpressed seams, their loose threads—they looked like they were sprouting pink thread from their armpits. The skirts they made didn’t even cover their underwear. In the heat I could hear their bare thighs on the plastic seats, the squelch of their skin’s release. It truly made me shudder.
Read MoreBy Madeline Ewanyshyn
It’s a Thursday when Dad tells me that Mom has died, so I’m allowed to swear to my heart’s content.
“Oh fuck,” I say, while feeding my tortoise Henry a piece of kale, “Oh dammit what rotten luck and terrible terrible shit.”
Read MoreBy Hillary Flynn
Lilly pressed the button for apartment 5D and waited on the stoop as the buzzer rang. The blare was so loud she glanced down the street to see if anyone heard. None of the people walking down University Place paid attention to her.
Read MoreBy Elaine Hayes
On an early February morning, Dad brought home the Ontario Application for Social Assistance. It came with a brochure listing the assets an applicant had to convert to cash prior to qualifying, as well as those an applicant could keep. I was eleven and excited and naïve.
Read MoreBy Nat Kishchuk
The wan Lachine sun slanting through the managers’ open doors uplights the ninth-floor dust. The managers are all at the meeting in Miami, hustling their way into new boss jobs in the merged company, Meriem thinks as she wheels the recycling bin down the passage. Probably by a pool, with umbrella cocktails.
Read MoreBy Hana Mason
The London Drugs Photo Lab emailed me to say that I had pictures that had been there for over six months and if I didn’t come to get them, they’d be put in storage for a year, after which they’d be destroyed. I’d already paid for them, so I walked downtown to get them.
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