Excerpted with permission from Wolsak & Wynn. Icars crash. Omagh. Wrists are slapped. Omaha. Nothing happens not willed in a haptic universe. Were you to decode our red-herring DNA – escape accumulated rubbish of omnibus Sandman, Gandalf & Saruman, Verses by Salman, Siamese Dream on vinyl, cassette & double-CD, the animal pets, our unarticulated selves …
Excerpted with Permission from Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd Hide scuffed on rock. Tish and Tosh, satiated with story, flopped into the ocean, the ripples where their bulky bodies submerged rapidly swallowed by a flowing tide. The departure felt like criticism; was my narrative dull, or were the sea lions tired of terrestrial details? I …
Excerpted with permission from Guernica Editions I found my mother bent over a washroom sink, hands gripping the sides, gown bunched up around her waist. A young and heavily tattooed nurse stood behind her, wiping her vulva with a cloth. I froze. The nurse methodically wiped every fold much like I would when changing Zoe’s …
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