Exquisite Corpse

A sometimes surreal exercise in cooperative writing to be performed by a rotating cast of Torontonians, one hundred words at a time.

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Harold Edwin Doughty

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It was a hot summer day in 1910, when Mrs. Eva Doughty caught her stepson, Harold, scratching his name into the bricks of their brand new h...
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Saturday, June 27, 2026

Tainted Love

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Perhaps it would be a stretch to call it a modern reiteration of Gift of the Magi, but a few Christmases ago, Jim bought Leslie a TUSHY . U...
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Monday, June 22, 2026

Potentially Useful Stuff

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Henry would never move, because he’d have to get rid of things: furniture, personal effects, his salvage trove. His wife belittled the latte...
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Thursday, June 18, 2026

My True Nemesis

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I hate packing, so I’m never moving again. My kids will have to pack up all my stuff when I’m gone. So I’ve said countless times. But that w...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

In which a Nerd Confronts his own Mortality

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Turns out there are only fourteen different calendar configurations: one for each day at the start of a regular year; another seven for leap...
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Friday, June 5, 2026

Existential Home Improvement

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Bee sat on my couch, looked up at our staircase and said, “Ah, geez, when you replacing that carpet?”      I thought I just did, but that wa...
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Monday, June 1, 2026

Proof of Life

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Roy knows I hate missing deadlines. Maybe that’s from years of client work (I don’t miss that), or my Navy days (I do miss them), but I’m n...
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