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Tough Love

Fate placed our university dorms side-by-side, causing us to meet again for the first time since infancy. Mabel and I bonded when the toilet overflowed into our rooms.

Answers in God’s Country

A couple of days before leaving for Nakusp, I’d broken up with my girlfriend Mandy in her room — surprising, in a way, us both.

Dancing with Hearts

By the time I’ve gotten the grade back for my story, an A+ (let’s go), I’m signed up to perform at the same show Robyn will be in. It’ll be…

Feminist Film Club

I hate to reference Bruno Mars, but after meeting my best friends I feel like I had been locked out of heaven. For too lo-oo-o-oo-ong.

Deal or No Deal

That’s the reality of losing yourself to the apps. You begin to treat yourself like clickbait. How can I grab their attention? How can I get a response? How can…

‘It was no longer something on the horizon that was coming to get us. It was in our live reality. That almost made me feel validated in some sick way’

I worked at a concession stand at the beach in a little hut. I think there was just one big fan in the whole little hut for us to be…

‘We’re on fire. And people catch fire from your fire’

My first experience of the degradation of man towards nature was as a tree planter back circa 1980 to 85. At times, it would feel like I was being sucked…

‘Nature is powerful and it doesn’t care if there’s a town there’

This was 2021, the year after COVID. Things were starting to open up again and I planned a trip with my friend Amelia from high school to stay at her…

‘It was like walking into a sauna’

It's an old building with really, really old windows, and they don't close properly. So in the winter, there's a draft. In the summer, there's hot air coming in through…

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