Soul Blind

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

The Creature

She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

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Soul Blind

On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection.

The Creature

She stops to look into her mother's face. It is smooth and blank as a stone. Nothing emerges; nothing shifts.

Torrey Peters on Writing Symbols, Sex, and Strategy

The author discusses her new book, Stag Dance

Solitaria

“Don’t come out until I come back!”

Who Are You Close To?

I worried I had broken the chatbot by trauma-dumping, and no one, human or machine, had the capacity to console me completely.

The East is Red

If he took a shortcut, if he made the creative process any easier for himself, the magic would be lost.

The Barmaid

The underpaid part-time job is a cornerstone of teenage life. None shaped me more than the year I spent  in our town's “premier fun pub.”

Shorthorns / Oxblood Gator Skin Seats

You know, Lady, I ain’t trying to start nothing, but a bunch of people’s saying you’re the best thing breathing.

Martin Amis, Cinephile

Remembering the late novelist’s encounters with the movies.

Darling Strangelet

Starting at 1:47 a.m., BC emergency dispatch started receiving 911 calls about an older, ruby-red Ford Taurus with no licence plate being driven erratically on Highway 16, headed east toward Prince George.