Hard Things

No Known Next Of Kin

No Known Next Of Kin

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The cat you see in that photo? That’s Oatmeal.

She’d dead.

She died on Saturday morning. Rather, she was discovered dead on Saturday morning. She could have died at night, or early morning – there wasn’t any post-mortem done. …

A Good Hand

A Good Hand

168

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?

What Happened In Regina?

256

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 …

Nine Months

Nine Months

149

I love a good love story. And a good love story isn’t good if it doesn’t have pain and desperation running in its veins. It’s not a good love story if one of the characters doesn’t sigh and say,