On the morning of September 11, 2001, a family doctor named Bill Deagle was driving his two older sons—Matthew, 16, and Stephen, 14—to Chatfield, their charter high school in Littleton, Colorado, a couple of miles from their home, when he heard the first confused, confusing, stuttering reports on the radio. A plane has crashed into […]
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Chasing Amy
Amy Lee Collins had to go to the hospital. But she didn’t want to. She hated hospitals. So she said to the two friends she’d been spending the day with at her North Park Street basement apartment, “I’m fine. I’m fine.” She had already had one seizure. Then there was another. Then, in time, another. […]
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Game on
Tuesday night in Dartmouth, lacrosse is booming. Literally. In the hollow, echoey guts of Bowles Arena, a barn-like hockey rink hidden deep in the outskirts of Dartmouth, lacrosse sounds like a series of small explosions. Twelve players, along with coach Norman Hum, have gathered to practice on the arena’s ice surface—with the ice temporarily removed. […]
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Elementary
George Steeves calls his house the photo bunker. It’s well hidden, deep on a looping crescent in an old Clayton Park neighbourhood—it was the end of town when Steeves moved there in 1973—where bungalows protectively stretch out like arms linking in solidarity. The photo bunker is built on angles and soft watery colours. It’s tidy, […]
