Slide

Barbara Myers

In Slide Barbara Myers plays with the eternal present, the nunc stans, taking us through time and space, over three continents, where people, places, and events continue to co-exist in memory and in the body. >>

small flames

Dina E. Cox

small flames is, like its title poem, an arrangement of lambent coals which brighten their hot cores under the breath of the reader’s gaze. Quiet, contained poems flare up with the intensity of peak experience – in moments of childhood, womanhood, birth, death and the infinite in a cormorant’s flight or Chaucer’s tomb. >>

Snow Formations

Carolyn Marie Souaid

Loosely based on the author's own three-year experience in settlements along the Hudson-Ungava coast, Snow Formations takes a realistic look at the modern Inuit world. >>

Solitaria

Genni Gunn

When Vito Santoro's body is inadvertently unearthed by a demolition crew in Fregene, Italy, his siblings are thrown into turmoil, having been told by their sister Piera that Vito had fled to Argentina fifty years earlier after abandoning his wife and son. >>

Some Days I Think I Know Things

Rhonda Douglas

In this contemporary retelling of the story of Cassandra, Rhonda Douglas explores what "truth" really means and asks what Homer's iconic young prophetress might have to say to anyone wise enough to pay heed to her in the 21st century. >>

Sosi

Linda Ghan

The realities of war, genocide and global immigration and their impact on subsequent generations are revealed through the story of Sosi: a survivor, a traveller, a mother, an Armenian. >>

Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals

Jim Nason

As her grandson makes his way back to her roots, Skye Rayburn must make peace with what she's done in her life. >>

Spring Planting

Kit Brennan

Spring Planting tells the story of two widowed neighbours, one an illiterate elder, the other a suddenly single mother. Their new circumstances are made yet more difficult by younger family members who push them beyond tolerable limits. >>