My mother, then fox. The Yangs, Anjuin. Even Miss Morris. They had all made decisions on my behalf. It had been necessary, I knew that. I had been a helpless …
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A cold winter gust brought him a familiar smell of perfume. He dropped his cigarette and softly pressed a finger against his nose. The smoke from his fingertips …
“Do Not Say We Have Nothing”, by Madeleine Thien, is a powerful and passionate novel, skillfully interwoven with rhythmic words to present a dynamic reading experience, similar to a fight …
There is urine on the seat again. Every time Shaohan sees splotches of his father’s urine on the toilet seat, something clenches inside him. He doesn’t have to sit there …
Part I: Planning the Rescue After much debate, the Park sisters named the mission “Operation Rescue the Squeaky Red Toy from Puppy Spa World”. An outside viewer might feel some …
Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Lauralyn Chow is the author of Paper Teeth, a book of interconnected short stories, following the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their …
Jane steeps in her claw-footed bathtub, one leg stretched out along the bottom, the other slightly bent. Her face towel drapes over the edge like the paper label of a …
Author of The Sweetest One, Melanie Mah was born in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and currently resides in Toronto. She is a freelance writer in Toronto and a graduate of the University …
Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell is the author of Stumbling Through Paradise, a novel which chronicles the story of the del Mundo family, who immigrated to Canada from the Philippines in the 1980s. …
Chapter One (1923) Wah Lum, my father, was born in 1908, the same year the Qing emperor, Xuan Tong, came to the throne. Being the only boy in the family, …