Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix
The following feature is an opinion piece on one of modern literature’s most experimental and controversial of writers, William Burroughs.
The Power of Fiction on Real Life
Issues with which we writers should concern ourselves when creating fictional characters.
The Mandir: A Splendid Light
A visit of the Mandrid to the Hindu temple in Toronto, Ontario.
Some People Deserve to Die – Book Review
Have you ever made the easy decision, rather than the right decision, and it ended up ruining your life […]
Germany Today Faces Its Dark Past
Germany today is facing its dark Nazi and Communist past with memorials to the horrendous deeds perpetrated by the Fascists.
Water is life
Ogibway women around the world sing to water. They give thanks to water in prayers in ceremonies. They give […]
Dock of the Bay
Stunning boat and dock photography.
Virtual Detroit
Photography from around Detroit.
By the Window Sill
These photographs are the result of an accident. While cleaning up a barn, I found three broken, and abandoned windows.
The Wedding
A transgendered teenager, engages in a fantasy with her girlfriend to express her love for her and to avoid the awful reality of being raped.
Not Like Us
This story takes place in London. Franc, a London-living Albanian, gets a call from his close mate Zen who asks for help to collect a debt.
A Beautiful Life, I Promise
The main characters brother tragically dies. She has now given up on everything and will not even speak.
Blind
A man walking home in the rain takes cover in what he thinks is an Empty Storefront, but it is the storefront for an elderly blind man’s barbershop.
Boots
A short reflection on education, privilege, homelessness, hope, and, of course, five-hundred dollar, leather boots.
And I haven’t had a thing to eat all day
Love and Death – turnabout IS fair play.
Fervent Orison
“Fervent Orison” explores very briefly the classic moment in which ‘the young man with the destiny’ must pull away from the mundane.
Texas Football
A high school football game in Texas in 1981. A time and place as dead and gone as the glories of Rome.
The Beard
The narrator meets a poor pensioner in the streets of Tirana, Albania. He tells him about his son, made unemployable ‘because of his long beard’
The Concrete Guy
Chuck just wants to get to the store for a coffee and a roll. When someone snakes his spot, he becomes unglued.
And Then, The Gods Came
A man trapped in a forest realizes that it may not be what he thinks it is. In fact, it may not be a forest at all.
In the wake of Canada’s 150th Birthday
A poem for Canada’s Birthday.
Cilantro Mantra
She delivers
guacamole
Alignment
This poem threads the needle of the human subconscious, to materialize an icon humans face when they get tension building up in them.
Thinking
What were You thinking – G?
I’m omnipotent!
Accident
This poem is about a person who has an accident and explores both the person who died and the taxi driver who killed him.
The Next Phase
Trying to play it cool, trying to play hard-to-get, waiting excruciating days before replying to emails, worried that her
Darwin Says
Looks at the changes in our society.
Exaltation
Miss Hooker is going to be my wife one day
Baja Days And Nights
Life on the Baja peninsular
Darlene Left Her DNA All Over My Dreams
Even the tiny closets are empty.
I looked for a secret door
Demagogue
Witness the insolent upstart
nonchalantly rouse the rabble