Fiction

Pull of Gravity You can see the light of Calgary for an hour before you see a single street lamp, a glow of orange like a grass fire. I press my face against the passenger side window and look up at the sky. My wedding ring blinks with the light of...

Summer Lessons I’m stuck inside with my mother and my sister. We’re at the back of the cottage in a small stifling south facing room with the sun streaming in. The window is wide open, the air stale and still. My sister sits in front of my mother wit...

Strangers When I was 14, my mother moved a stranger into our apartment. A few days before he arrived, while we ate our TV dinners in the couch as we watched the channel 7 news, she said that someone would be coming to stay with us. Who? I asked. My...