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Certainty

By James F. McGrath, “I’m recording this so that you can be certain, as I am…” Kelly Wallace pushed the button on the console again and stopped the recording. Before she finalized it, and recorded the concluding phrase, before she made it final and sent it off, she wanted to listen

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Soul. Figure of man in shining cloak in the sky

Certainty

By James F. McGrath, “I’m recording this so that you can be certain, as I am…” Kelly Wallace pushed the button on the console again and stopped the recording. Before she finalized it, and recorded the concluding phrase, before she made it final and sent it off, she wanted to listen

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Crackerjacks

(Crackerjacks was an honourable mention from Esoterica’s Inaugural Short Story Competition) By Myna Wallin When I was eighteen, a flamboyant psychiatrist-cum-fashion model strutted into her

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Hiroshima Flower

(Hiroshima Flower received honourable mention by the judges in Esoterica’s Short Story Contest.) By Rudy Thauberger, Normally I find a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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