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My Uncle, The Fisherman
Uncle Louie stood beside the Dark Lake a long time, starring out at the placid water as the sun rose.
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Directions Home
My earliest childhood memory is of the herd of slow-rising hot air balloons over the Rocky Mountains. Every morning, my twin sister, Ava, and I would stand beneath the westward-facing window of our playroom and gaze towards the horizon as the
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Watermelon and Buttercups
The Author traverses the space between support and understanding of the geopolitical situation of Israel and Palestine.
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Savory
The author writes about her experience regarding body shaming and judgmental glares of neighbourhood aunts.
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This is What It Means to Say Poetry in America
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Statues and the Colonised Mind
Statues do many things. They tell or repress a story about the past. They tell us about ourselves. They make us feel uneasy or can inspire. Scenes of sculptural epiphanies and distress, as well as, defiance, acknowledge that engaging with statues is not always easy or enjoyable.
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Reflections on Loneliness from a Kitchen Sink
Connections can be found in unexpected spaces, such as greenhouses and the flora they house. Despite knowing about greenhouses and histories of violence behind their creation, I wasn’t prepared for the array of emotions that assailed me when I visited a greenhouse for the first time—inside the Jardins Botaniques in Montreal.
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Stalking Annie Dillard
Afterwards, we strolled down the street. Actually, Annie and KK strolled, while I pretended to stroll, trying to inject a measure of insouciance into my knees in the hope that it would work its way upwards. “She is just a person,” I told myself, and turned to her, striving for jauntiness.
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Front Gate at Suurbraak
Poet, editor and translator Sarabjeet Garcha, pens a beautiful essay that takes us to the depths of philosophy and poetry, colours and words mesh here in a vibrant symphony.
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Within bodies, around bodies
Malini gives us a personal essay on women’s experiences and the body. In a subtle manner, the piece weaves in a political commentary as well.
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Leftover Woman
Monica Woo takes the reader on a journey with milestones marked by the lives of her nanny and her English professor.
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O Christmas Feast, O Christmas Feast
The Author imparts upon the readers the relish of Christmas feasts entwined with its history and significance
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Anger
The writer reflects on the wide range of emotions and experiences she had in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
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The Angry Men I Knew Once
The writer pens her thoughts about anger, family and things in between.
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Photographs and Memories and Everything in Between
The author weaves a beautiful nostalgic narrative entwining kith and kin with the physical aspects of a camera.
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Poor Impulse Control
The author narrates an episode from his childhood foreshadowing his diagnoses and how he learned to get himself out of dangerous situations.
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Eating my heart out, liberally
The author writes about the gastronomical paradise of her childhood and how the organic changes forever changed the equation she shared with meals.
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Decay
The author reminisces about death and mortality and how it shapes the person one becomes.
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Justice for my Mother Tongue
Language and what it means? What is lost even in the best of translations? There are some of the questions that the author ponders over. along with how language and cultures are much more closely related than they actually seem to be.
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Putting It Together
The author rediscovers patience and the art of embracing cracks, but not without the serendipitious help from a 4 year old!
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Dinosaurs Before Dark
Lena Gemmer writes about facing the unaccommodating public school’s educational system in her childhood, which is futile for students with learning diabilities.
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Starman Waiting in the Sky
The author traverses the chasm between Jewish or Christian and the unknown.
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Honey Balm
The author weaves a telling tale out of a a complex fusion of honey, mountains, lungs, honeycombs, childhood memories and falling stars.
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King’s Cross
The author writes of a night’s experience replete with classical music, a cup of chai and nostalgia.