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Girls Unwanted: Part I
George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights. Since beginning his theatre career in the early 1970s, Walker has written more than 30 plays and has created screenplays for several award-winning Canadian television series. Part Kafka, part Lewis Carroll, Walker’s distinctive, gritty, fast-paced tragicomedies illuminate and

Girls Unwanted: Part I
George F. Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and popular playwrights. Since beginning his theatre career in the early 1970s, Walker has written more than 30 plays and has created screenplays for several award-winning Canadian television series. Part Kafka, part Lewis Carroll, Walker’s distinctive, gritty, fast-paced tragicomedies illuminate and

Biafran Man
By Jonathan Papernick That summer, the boys of Owl Bunk called the new kid who never spoke “Polio Arms,” “Mr. Skin and Bones,” and sometimes, when

Runner’s High
By Lauren Lytle Stepping over the barricade on the mountain trail, I start my nightly run. I already start sliding on the melted snow left

Last Fragments
By Nathan Perrin Andrew watched the chemo mixture go slowly into his veins. He closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh. Stage four

Camp Chemo
By Austin Gilmore Stave I Most healthy kids my age don’t want anything to do with a Cancer Girl. They don’t want the constant reminder

The Gunman Who Forgot Who to Shoot
By T.J. Seefeldt The man had a job to do. He just couldn’t remember exactly what it was. He looked up from the bed in

Rapids
By CB Anderson Every day at lunchtime Sean paddles upriver, pulling against the current until his mind is sky and white-capped water. The precarity suits

A Stand-Up Comedian Walks into a Bar
By Ellis Shuman “Tough crowd tonight.” “You can’t win them all,” Mac said, slumping into a chair at the side of the club. “Some of

Billy Benjamin
By Emily Weedon, She lived in Laaksolahti and hated it. She hated the suburban, fussy strangled feel to the place. Dirt roads, for Crissakes, and

Night of the Coywolf
By Christopher Allen Nonna changed after her kitten was eaten. We all did, more or less. But the little fur ball was her greatest friend.