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Writings \/ Fiction: Yutaka Dirks<\/a><\/h3>
Pull of Gravity \r\n\r\nYou 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...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Dolly Reisman<\/a><\/h3>
Summer Lessons \r\nI\u2019m stuck inside with my mother and my sister. We\u2019re 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...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Fiction: Tashania Colquhoun<\/a><\/h3>
Strangers \r\nWhen 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...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1408,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/1613"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}