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Siblings: A Lesson in Juxtaposition
Juxtapose: to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. We were juxtaposed from the start. Nearly identical, and totally different. “Are you twins?”, “My, don’t they...
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Mall Walker
We hurry through the big shopping mall, on our way to Mom’s favourite store where all the old lady clothes and big screen TVs are. Mom and Dad are talking, making shopping lists in the air with their...
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A Look Back at Academia
I have been in school for a long time. A very long time. When I was younger, school was an endless ladder of knowledge that I couldn’t seem to climb fast enough. Every bit of information I was given, I...
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The Last Minute
She sweeps the brush across the nail of her right thumb, slowly, with a neat and focused rhythm. A thin line of pink appears. She lifts the brush to start again, slightly to the left. It has nothing to...
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The Sign
I still think of you. One of the two “night nymphs,” as my father affectionately called you. The neighbour girls, who would dance with sparklers in the dark across the orchard, on Canada Day and New...
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Don’t Look, Charles
I pull on my boots, and shove the final notice in my pocket. Halfway up Brenton Street, a couple stands still on the icy sidewalk. Heads turned upward, staring at the roof of an oddly immaculate house,...
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A Word of Difference
I make more sense in writing. I have always known this to be true. When speaking, thoughts leap-frog out of my brain, mocking the nice, ordered numbers I pinned to their chests in case they got lost....
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