A busy, smoky pool hall
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Do I Know You?

I am staring into the mirror trying to make sure the trimming on the beard is just right when I hear the ding of my phone with a text message.…
unofficial start of summer image of cottage on lake
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The Unofficial Start of Summer

In Canada, summer doesn’t wait for the calendar to say June 21st. It arrives earlier, marked not by a solstice, but by a collective cultural exhale. Much like my first…
A fiction writer working at a desk
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When Fiction Isn’t Fiction at All

Fiction is often presented as a world apart—imagined, invented, entirely "made up." But any writer who has sat long enough with a character, or shaped a scene from nothing, knows…