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Coney island
The roller coaster creaks under our weight while it pulls us slowly up into the sky. There’s a chain underneath our seats. I can hear it clicking. Click click click. I would feel better if this structure was metal, but it isn’t. And the wood is creaking all around us. People are seriously injured on […]
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Badtime stories
Heather O’Neill puts down the phone. It rings again. On this morning, an offer from Los Angeles to buy the film rights to the Montreal author’s first novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals. “At first I was “No, no, no, no, no, I’ll never do it,’ but they’re so persuasive.” O’Neill’s laughter draws out like taffy […]
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Halifax InternationalWriters’ Festival
March 28, 7:30pm, $10 Joining Heather O’Neill is Nova Scotian author Linda Little, whose novel Scotch River tells the story of bull rider and lost soul Cass Hutt, whose mysterious past leads him back east. The hero of Nadia Bozak‘s debut novel Orphan Love is the intriguingly named Bozak, a young punk rocker bred on […]
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Copy that
Rule #1: Catwalk Avoid wearing anything too slinky or sexy—this isn’t Halloween, you hussy. Instead, add a sparkly belt or perhaps a fancy hairdo. From Animal Hairstyles D.I.Y. (a do it yourself guide), Sonia Edworthy Rule #2: Well bread Never show up to a party empty-handed, as accurately demonstrated here. George Costanza: “So you’re telling […]
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The Darkness
When I was six years old, my father sat me, my brother and sister down on a park bench and told it to us straight: “There is no Santa Claus, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy and no God. Questions? No? Ice cream?” I was already sort of hip to the Santa/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy racket, […]
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Until morning
I remember standing there, staring at the back of him. His slouched shoulders, the irregular shape of his head. Marco was always at the kitchen window, after supper when he got back from the gym. He’d come in and plunk his kit bag down on top of me, the smell of barbells and wet socks, […]
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Finders, keepers
“The lights should come on in a minute or two,” came a loud but unamplified voice from the far end of the arrivals hall. Allie sighed and kicked the baggage carousel, the rubber toe of her boot bouncing back at her. “Unbelievable,” Marcus said. He was not the type to deal well with this sort […]
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Sweet Revenge
I’m sorry officer, for my judgment error,but Terry’s Chocolate Orange      makes a delightful“SMACK!”— wrapped in a Christmas stockingswung on the windshield of a car. No, it’s not my first time.That was Valentines Day. 1996.Red-hot candy hearts,      crushed into molten powdererupted from my ex’s gas-tank ?with tongue-numbing glee. Then there was Easter. 2001.The perky bottoms of white chocolate […]
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Over the top
When your thumbs get tired from playing our top10 video games, read one of our picks for best book or graphic novel. Steeped. Click to see this year’s best: BOOKS by Sue Carter FlinnGRAPHIC NOVELS by Carsten KnoxVIDEO GAMES by Gerry Hubley
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Pawn shop blues – Page 4
“Peat, I said I’d do it for you! Both my grandfathers were barbers, you know.” I move toward him, raise my hand to riffle what’s left of his hair. He flinches away. “I know,” he says. “I just wanted it done. Anyhow, who does who think they’re kidding?” “What?” I say, thrown off by the […]
