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Seedlings

Posted by Room | Dec 29, 2005 | Fiction, Reading Room

Our 2005 fiction contest winner, “Seedlings” by Helyn Wohlwend of Cobble Hill, BC. I get too excited about spring. That’s what Peter says. “Lila, you just get too excited about spring.” But he smiles when he says it,...

Into Grains of Sand

Posted by Room | Dec 29, 2005 | Poetry, Reading Room

The 2nd place poetry winner of our 2005 contest, “Into Grains of Sand” by Zoya Harris of Vancouver, BC. I. Your dog sleeps on the back seat, a blanket spread below his dream-twitches like the blue night spreads...

Overwintering

Posted by Room | Dec 29, 2005 | Poetry, Reading Room

The winner of our 2005 Poetry Contest. And see how the flesh grows back across a wound, with a great vehemence, more strong. —Jane Hirshfield I. She hovers by the filament lamp hard pellet in her abdomen and watches in the...

Alive

Posted by Room | Dec 1, 2005 | Poetry, Reading Room

Under the knife blade, my mother’s broken hand in a sling, purple peel strips off over the face of the counter. Under the knife blade, my mother’s broken hand in a sling, purple peel strips off over the face of the counter. Her...

Handbook for Travellers

Posted by Room | Sep 1, 2005 | Fiction, Reading Room

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. In Arabic, her father...