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Three Decades

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I’ve written about this before, however between 2005-2007 I worked for Village Market, marketing department. Good times. It’s the only time I ever weighed 92kgs. No children, no wife, I was doing little, eating more. Life was very silky. …

A Good Hand

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Creative boundaries. That’s the burden of bearing witness as a writer. You don’t quite know what story is yours to tell and which ones demand your silence. The assumption is that if you are in a room, it’s fair …

What Happened In Regina?

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You marry someone. You share a bed. A table. You know how many sugars they like in their tea. You learn to live with how they unroll the toilet paper like a child with Parkinson’s Disease. How they leave …

A Landscape Of Dead Sams

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Hippos are bastards. True bastards. Little fat things with big mouths. Bullish and thuggish, these animals can snap a canoe in half, snap a human like a toothpick. These lake lords are fast, which is surprising because they have …

Just Time

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On her 16th birthday last year, Tamms wore a devastating black dress for dinner at The Talisman in Karen. She ordered a mocktail to make her feel sophisticated and grown, someone with agency. Also because the only thing that …