GALLIFREYAN VALENTINE       Taylor Daigneault-Patterson is an undergrad at the University of Winnipeg in the Integrated Arts/Education Program working towards a major in English. Beyond writing, Taylor is…

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHILD   Everyone settle down and gather ’round as today we study, newly-discovered, the twenty-first century child. Note the tattoos threading through its body. Ink oozing out…

I RINK THEREFORE I CARE   Signs of intelligent life / A concrete layer of zero is the lie between to feel Safe and warm for another house of construction.…

BONES   1. they sit at either end of the bed. her breasts spilling out over the top of rumpled bedclothes. stilted small-talk as she examines her hands. she catches…

VIRTUE FAQ   Not everyone loves you. Most social interactions between people fall into one of these categories; Friendly, Romantic, Mean, Funny, or Special. Once you are able to see…

SHORT CUT THROUGH A CITY CEMETERY for Sina Queyras   the world last night is the glow shelter lame he was and is no colder you who know hit upon…

THE COLD WAR WAS MY PARENTS’ WAR   I am matri-/patri-          liminal, co-conceived by seven generations of mothers and fathers at a time travellers’ orgy in an act of…

FOUR POEMS   somewhere between 5 & 25, i began to see umbrellas totally differently   *   so often i wanted to taunt you with my ill- equipped hips…

NORMAN BATES   Pupils.      Shiny and black as crow feathers. Smiles like Tippi Hedren’s gold necklace. Mother.      Punctures her bird calls. The shower curtain pulls.     THE VERTIGO EFFECT…

MEMORY LANE   You press your body against the railing of the ferry holding a globe, ready to drop it into the inclement waters of Lake Erie hoping that the…

HAT TRICK   Instructions: Cut each of these six stanzas out, put them into a hat, and draw them at random, reading aloud as you do. The only part of…