Procrastination
A short personal essay on vulnerability and the writing process.
Difficulty Swallowing by Kym Cunningham; Essays That Will Stick in Your Teeth
A review of Kym Cunningham’s debut collection of personal essays; Difficulty Swallowing.
Modern Day Phantoms found in Women’s Literature
Women writers in the 19th and 20th Centuries were far ahead of their time.
On Inspiration
Is inspiration ephemeral or damn hard work? One writer provides his thoughts on this perennial subject.
Jewel: A Memoir
Review of author Jewel Davis’s memoir – a window into the Baby Boomer Generation.
The Human-Actor, Moments to Anagnorisis
Shakespeare had once composed, and asked Jacques to tell the literary world of a ball that was, to him, a stage.
Review of Flowers, all sorts in blossom, figs, berries, and fruits forgotten
A review of Review of Flowers, all sorts in blossom, figs, berries, and fruits forgotten, a book of poetry by Oisin Breen.
Unleavened Flatbread
The best writing advice I have ever received.
Melville’s Bartleby and Camus’ Absurdism
A close reading of both Bartleby and The Stranger highlights the striking similarities in imagery, symbolism, and theme between the two works.
Defying Psychoanalysis in Djuna Barnes’ To the Dogs and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night
To the Dogs and Tender Is the Night are two works that strive to challenge Freudian notions on Psychoanalytic methods and gender theories.
Edie on the Green Screen: Laying Down the Armor of the Invulnerable It-Girl
This review looks at Beth Lisick’s forthcoming novel and engages with how Lisick’s title character will speak to the aging non-conformist.
Review of The Group of Seven Reimagined
Editor Karen Schauber has put together a fascinating collection of literary stories, all of which were inspired by famous, historic Canadian paintings.
A review of Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet
Where Oceans Meet is a book of flash fiction stories that read like poetry.
Rape Culture
Somewhere in a post-patriarchal future where the onus is placed on men to be sure they have consent.
Roses and Thorns
A myth about the creation of the rose and the struggle to make sense of why pain exists.
My Coffee Date with Death
A chance meeting with a mysterious stranger provides a pathway to salvation for a desperate man who has lost his way during a pandemic.
May Day Mayday!
A story of one young American boy and his infatuation with his older Canadian friend, and their efforts to unionize the plant where they worked.
Glory Be
A small town is on edge due to a string of brutal murders. The town’s most senior detective, Detective Lohelm is on the case.
Our Arborist
Tree limbs provide a bridge across fences dividing people.
Pasture Statues
What does the cow see behind the woman and child?
The Man Who Murdered the Smartest Man in the World
At the crossroads of faith and artificial intelligence.
What to Bring Your First Time at the Death Cafe
The limits of grieving alone.
Fernglow’s Final Equation
A physics professor attempts to end the scourge of gun violence by means of a simple mathematical theorem …
By the Strait
A work of allegorical fiction following a girl named Glauca as she navigates a world on the brink of the ocean while contending with memory and loss.
Who Killed Publishing
A literary agent struggles with how to reject a worthy author and wonders how the industry got to the point where this is the norm.
A Getaway from the Everyday
A young couple meet for their commute home on the Staten Island Ferry and discuss if joining the rat race and living an unfulfilling…
Fine stitching
A short poem about someone else’s poems.
What Freedom Means
A in-depth poem that is both relevant to our current time, sentiments, and issues of the world.
Depression, 2020
I haven’t written a poem in a long time.
The words were missing, lost children.
a non professional Rick
a non professional Rick*
ran off without tipping for milking his dick
Domicile of Frangible Branches
Describe us in eternity, Eros of those running beasts Death dreamt! That seek lucidity to see the bottom of this lake where your kin’s…
Haiku: Buddhism
fiddles with fixing
ancient genetic baggage
It just turned out that way
An early evening autumn reverie.
Long Gone
A lakeside campground lies deserted after many years of service. Such places are best viewed at dusk and should be examined respectfully.
Weighing the Evidence
Another way of seeing good and evil.
I believe a universal love is quite possible
In the midst of Black lives Matter protests and Aboriginal Lives Matter, I believe a universal love is quite possible.
This Love
This poem is a modern sonnet highlighting the love a man has for his heartthrob.
deathdefying
no point in kneeling down
on rough stones
Some Are Not Meant For This World
This was written after reading about a woman suffering from depression who was released from a hospital without anyone calling her relatives.