Exquisite Corpse

Since late November, Rich and I have been back to a three species household and the timing could not be better.  Worried that the world ...

With callous and sadistic pleasure The tiny-handed king will savour The chaos, the hating The dog-whistle baiting The cruelty ...

How do you navigate through a world full of monsters but not become one yourself? The temptation is there to wall yourself into your condo l...

Left and right used to describe handedness Used to be used as direction Used to mean the logical half and the creative half Now that wi...

As I sit here, recovering from a fracture and read my fellow corpses’ pieces, I find myself wondering what it would be like to be toothles...

The boy waits for his first tooth to work loose. Behind some of his friends, he wants desperately to be a part of it, this basic rite of pa...

“Can he bring it home?” Jane‘s husband was about to have a large nasal polyp removed, and I wondered about a souvenir.      We were a fami...

I hear their tinny, amplified voices across Kraków’s Main Square, and wander over to see what’s happening. They are young Ukrainians, sing...

“It’s like Twilight meets Arrested Development meets Avatar set in space in 2450. Essentially, the preserved brain of Stephen Hawking is...

Heading down for lunch, the elevator stopped on the 29th floor. Cal walked in. He had just come back from a Christmas fête. We made awkwa...

Even after all this time, I can still spoil my Christmas a little remembering the years where I had to spend every moment leading up to ...

On our evening dog walk Richard looked at a window decorated for Christmas. A frosty stencil of a sleigh pulled by reindeer sailing throug...

It was produced in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, and on April 26 it began its journey towards its end-user, travelling 215 kilometres to CNE Ex...

Eliza looks at our tree crowded with ornaments, many chipped and broken, and comments: “Some people curate their trees.”      But how can I ...

The word boner came up over dinner with friends recently.      It conjures up unique childhood, teenage and young adult memories. Grade ...

Mary just wanted it out of the house, but I thought it might fetch $80.00 online, except I’d first need to sew the seam that had popped, bu...

I found a FedEx bag stolen by a porch pirate, ripped open then dumped under the viaduct by No Frills. UNIQLO. Leggings and a sweater.  A...

Unrestrained by the wise, abetted by toads  The Day-One dictator will soon have the codes He’ll knock allies, break treaties, he’...

When our old console TV broke, my mother, in the belief that you never throw anything away, and that she’d have the money to fix it somed...

It was during the autumn moon, and she came calling She took me to the tower top to catch a breath and see the city lights How c...