Fiction

In The Balance

One of the honourable mentions for our fiction 2006 contest.

By Joan McEwen
Seedlings

Our 2005 fiction contest winner, "Seedlings" by Helyn Wohlwend of Cobble Hill, BC.

By Helyn Wohlwend
Handbook for Travellers

In Arabic, her father put questions to the old man. Whether these were advice seeking, or advice giving, Safia could not be sure. She never came to understand what her grandfather wanted from any of them.

By Nyla Matuk
In the Absence of Wings

As she sails over the barbed wire fence, a hot dry wind behind her, the cow thinks of birds. How useful wings might be at a time like this. Her spindly legs crumple and pink udders squash as the round of her girth meets the hard of the ground. Parched weeds prickle and lightning bugs flash.

By Mary Wharff
Chicken

I think I smell like alcohol. I’m sitting, eating a doughnut and thinking about last night. I wonder if my liver is O.K.; if I keep this up, I’ll kill myself. No, if I keep this up, I’ll become my mother.

By Sally Cobau
Regina Leigh

Slivers of cut grass stick to my calves and hands. Sweat soaks my bra. I am sweating.

By Laura Durnell

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