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Compulsion and loneliness drive a woman to search for family on television.
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Go shoppingEditor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Compulsion and loneliness drive a woman to search for family on television.
Every time I enter the supermarket I tell myself I won’t play the Game.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
How can children make sense of change? Recalling hot summers and spam salads, Kim reflects on childhood memories.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end.
breakfic, Fiction, LunchBreak Fiction
“Sometimes laughing feels like crying.” A frozen bag of fish can make or break this marriage, in Mick Stratta’s “Cod Provençal.”
#TuesdayTales, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick
“Megan’s mother always texted in all caps when speaking English.” Megan navigates call centres and the struggles of migrants in Australia.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
In the first weeks of the pandemic, an immune-compromised person seeks help from some yoga people.
“I put Gary down as just another relic of the hippy era eking out his pension in the Land of Smiles.” Bangkok, retirement, friendship, life.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
“If you could save just one piece of music, what would it be?” Today’s #StorySunday is “Ostinato”, by James Borley.
“Our bodies can – get this, ‘bear witness to the pain history didn’t quite extinguish.’” A story of dating through OCD and grief.
Curating floating galleries: immersion in aesthetic wonder
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay Saturday
He reminded me of a teacher I’d had in grad school, who emphasized focusing on an image of a butterfly flying away as I played.
Julia stood on the steps of the house, the only person on her dead-end, abandoned street, applauding solo, in ghostly community with the rest of the country.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
“They couldn’t find a babysitter, almost everyone was in the Queue.” Today’s #StorySunday is “Waiting Snake”, by Daniela Esposito.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
“Like weather passing over. It will, if you can just wait it out.” Today’s #StorySunday is the “These Quiet Rooms” by Jennifer Albon Burns.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
“That night, as the man tossed in knotted bedsheets, the corpse took root.” Today’s #StorySunday is “By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them” by John Steciuk.
Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
As a writer, I learned early on there was no one place to call home.
Litro #183: Place, Print Issues
Only brides from or marrying into prosperous families wore multiple pieces at their wedding banquets. Iris knew that there would be no imperial jade in her future