The Taddle Creek Archive

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THE Fiction
“Notes to Simon”
By Gil Adamson

"Two Stories"
By Sonja Ahlers

“Future You”
By Jason Anderson

“Near Mint”
By Jason Anderson

“One Sweet Dawn”
By Jason Anderson

“Circle of Stones”
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew

“Extreme Ironing”
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew

“Albert’s Paradise”
By Gary Barwin

“Runner”
By Gary Barwin

“Slice”
By Gary Barwin

“Tart. Sweet. Crunchy. Crisp.”
By Gary Barwin

“Uvula Shadows”
By Gary Barwin

“Despite Last Night’s Rain”
By Jonathan Bennett

“After Dinner”
By Moe Berg

“The Sandra Manoeuvre”
By Moe Berg

“Without Affection”
By Moe Berg

“The Stranger Elijah”
By Tamara Faith Berger

“Thinking”
By Tamara Faith Berger

“Whoredom”
By Tamara Faith Berger

“Be Kind To Your Children”
By Michelle Berry

“I Still Don’t Even Know You”
By Michelle Berry

“Quarter Turn”
By Ryan Bigge

“A Way in the Dark”
By Alex Boyd

“You’re Fuckin’ Right, You’re Fuckin’ Right”
By Tony Burgess

“Sinsemilla”
By Ben Carrozza

“The Quiet”
By Michael Christie

“And Then the Werewolf”
By Joey Comeau

“Alice and Hazel”
By Andrew Daley

“The Applicant”
By Andrew Daley

“Prosperity”
By Andrew Daley

“Summerland”
By Andrew Daley

“Sunken Treasure”
By Andrew Daley

“The Superman Curl”
By Andrew Daley

“Déjà Yu Makes the Pain Go Away”
By Peter Darbyshire

“The Code”
By Peter Darbyshire

“If You Lived Here . . .”
By Peter Darbyshire

“Neighbours”
By Peter Darbyshire

“I, Tania”
By Brian Joseph Davis

“Flowers Don’t Frighten Me So Much Any More”
By Kim Dawn

“Property Lines”
By John Degen

“The Uninvited Guest”
By John Degen

“Foreign Bodies”
By Danielle Egan

“Habitat”
By Danielle Egan

“My Life Among the Apes”
By Cary Fagan

“Shit Box”
By Cary Fagan

“The Call of the Loons”
By Sonya Freedman

“See You Next Tuesday”
By Stacey May Fowles

“Maeve’s Murder”
By Camilla Gibb

“Two Nights Before Christmas”
By Camilla Gibb

“The Year of Silence”
By Camilla Gibb

“The Infected Knee, the Gallbladder, and the Summer of Love”
By Kristi-Ly Green

“‘Wiggie Waiter Bites into Millions!’ Said the News”
By Kristi-Ly Green

“Still the Same Pig You’ve Always Been”
By Ron Hawkins

“Ultra”
By Sara Heinonen

“A Situation Comedy”
By Lee Henderson

“What Changed”
By Sheila Heti

“Corey Was a Danger Cat”
By Heather Hogan

“The Princess is Dead”
By Heather Hogan

“Hell”
By Kerri Leigh Huffman

“Hot or Cold”
By Rose Hunter

“Viaticum”
By Maureen Jennings

“Circus Notebooks, 1927”
By Elissa Joy

“Mysteries of the Internal Combustion Engine”
By Elissa Joy

“A Time I Never Knew”
By Alexandra Leggat

“Good and Happy”
By Alexandra Leggat

“Sonny”
By Alexandra Leggat

“Soldiers”
By Andrew Loung

“French Braids”
By Jennifer LoveGrove

“Valhalla”
By Jennifer LoveGrove

“It’s a Keeper”
By Jude MacDonald

“The Author”
By Derek McCormack

“Horse Feathers”
By Derek McCormack

“The Show That Smells”
By Derek McCormack

“Wish Window”
By Derek McCormack

“Snorkel”
By Judy McCrosky

“Bittersweet”
By Deanna McFadden

“Complex States of Equilibrium”
By Scott McIntyre

“Antithesis”
By Saro McKenna

“Chained for Life”
By Leanna McLennan

“Big Trip”
By Susan Mockler

“Donut Castle”
By Susan Mockler

“Savage”
By Nathaniel G. Moore

“U. of T.: 2020”
By Jim Munroe

“The Colourist”
By Hal Niedzviecki

“Focus Group”
By Hal Niedzviecki

“One Strange Country”
By Hal Niedzviecki

“Real Estate”
By Hal Niedzviecki

“Sometime Next Sunrise”
By Hal Niedzviecki

“The Useless”
By Hal Niedzviecki

“Locks”
By Marguerite Pigeon

“The Mermaid Sings”
By Marguerite Pigeon

“No Power”
By Marguerite Pigeon

“Daily Routine”
By Jay Pinkerton

“The First Rule”
By Jay Pinkerton

“Love and Lightning”
By Jay Pinkerton

“Ownership”
By Keith Prestwich

“The Rat”
By Andrew Pyper

“All Things Being Equal”
By Shannon Quinn

“Sunchild”
By Shannon Quinn

“Renaissance Man”
By Stan Rogal

“No Man’s Land”
By Cecily Ross

“A Private Woman”
By David Ross

“Aphids”
By Stuart Ross

“Buying Cigarettes for the Dog”
By Stuart Ross

“Cow Story”
By Stuart Ross

“Everything’s In Something Else”
By Stuart Ross

“The Interview”
By Stuart Ross

“Monkeys”
By Stuart Ross

“The Snow Grave”
By Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg

“The Machine is Perfect, the Engineer is Nobody”
By Brett Alexander Savory

“Heaven is Small”
By Emily Schultz

“I Love You, Pretty Puppy”
By Emily Schultz

“Closing Time”
By Dianne Scott

“Rolling Pennies”
By Dianne Scott

“Snatcher”
By Dianne Scott

“Aerial View of a Dinner Party”
By Kate Sutherland

“Camping at Wal-Mart”
By Ania Szado

“Pickers”
By Ania Szado

“The Story of the Eye”
Ten terrifying tales.
By Various authors

“Steak and Eggs”
By Jessica Westhead

“Smother the Others”
By Kathleen Whelan

“Amnesia”
By Alana Wilcox

“Jardin Botanique“
By Judith Williams

“Bunkie”
By Julie Wilson

“Pitched”
By Julie Wilson

“So This is How it Happens”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

“The Benefit”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

“Thirteen”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

THE LOST & Found DEPT.
“The Testimony of Carl Sanders, Inventor of the Microchip”

“Eric’s Top Ten Reasons for Changing His E-mail Address”
By Eric Squair

THE ILLUSTRATED FICTION
“Afterlife”
By J. Bone

“My Name is Eunice Jung”
By Michael Cho

“Night Time”
By Michael Cho

“Stars”
By Michael Cho

“Trinity”
By Michael Cho

“The Grass Seed”
By Claudia Dávila

“The Portal”
By Alan Hunt

“A Really Special Summer”
By Christopher Hutsul

“Why, Zanta? Why?”
By Jason Kieffer

“Sunset Eckler”
By Brett Lamb

“Bughouse”
By Dave Lapp

“Mouse Girl”
By Dave Lapp

“Funnybabyland”
By Steven Charles Manale

“Left!”
By Steven Charles Manale

“Orc with Glasses”
By Steven Charles Manale

“Heinous scabus eaticus”
By Rachelle Maynard

“Fad to Grey”
By Brian McLachlan

“Therefore Repent!”
By Jim Munroe, Salgood Sam

“21st Century Soviet Scientist Predictions”
By Ian Phillips

“Caught”
By Fiona Smyth

“Knows Swonk”
By Fiona Smyth

“Chicken or the Egg”
By Zach Worton

“Do You Have Any Bee Stories?”
By Rajo Zakic

THE Literary Activism DEPT.
“Past Due”
By Jim Munroe

THE Profiles
Sonja Ahlers
Bunny heads and stranger things: the wandering eye of Sonja Ahlers.
By Rachel Pulfer

Jason Anderson
An arts writer, a keyboardist, and a filmmaker walk into a book deal. The result is Anderson’s comedic debut novel.
By Alex Mlynek

Tamara Faith Berger
Is her work highbrow fiction or lowbrow smut? Does it matter?
By Emily Pohl-Weary

Chris Chambers
The local poet Chris Chambers is ready to put his goldfish on a wagon and show it to the world.
By David Alan Barry

Kevin Connolly
With Drift, his third collection, the poet Kevin Connolly continues to hone his complex intellect, biting wit, and sense of the absurd.
By Rachel Pulfer

Lynn Crosbie
The author Lynn Crosbie discusses the controversy surrounding her latest book, Paul’s Case.
By Kerri Huffman

Merle Foster
Merle Foster’s studio wasn’t a toy shop, but it was still magical to the children of the Ward.
By Terry Murray

Elyse Friedman
Elyse Friedman followed her lucky star to a successful career as an author, poet, screenwriter, and, maybe someday, an artist.
By Suzanne Alyssa Andrew

Camilla Gibb
The author Camilla Gibb transforms from first-time novelist to writer with The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life.
By Rebecca Caldwell

Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs persuaded us to rethink cities. Her new book warns us to rethink societies, or else.
By Alfred Holden

Joe Matt
Meet Joe Matt, indie comics’ answer to nerd rock.
By Conan Tobias

Derek McCormack
Toronto’s midnight cowboy rises from the gutter with a new book to scare up readers.
By Conan Tobias

Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe challenges science fiction forms and political apathy in Angry Young Spaceman.
By Kerri Huffman

Mysterion
A Ph.D. in E.S.P. has treated the local illusionist and mind reader better than an M.B.A.
By Liisa Ladouceur

Hal Niedzviecki
Canada’s self-defined indie guru faces adulthood, fatherhood, and a growing generation gap.
By Lauren McKeon

Emily Pohl-Weary
The author Emily Pohl-Weary discusses demystifying the magazine-making process, her family’s sci-fi past, and why mainstream culture isn’t always a bad thing.
By Alex Mlynek

Stuart Ross
The author and poet explores his family history and his own emotions in his upcoming collection, Razovsky at Peace.
By Kerri Huffman

Emily Schultz
With a new book of short stories, a successful series of chapbooks, and the editor’s chair of Broken Pencil, Emily Schultz scores a D.I.Y. hat trick.
By Joanne Huffa

Patricia Seaman
Patricia Seaman makes herself laugh, and her readers dance.
By Kerri Huffman

Rosemary Sullivan
The Toronto biographer dances through the life of Margaret Atwood in The Red Shoes.
By Kerri Huffman

R. M. Vaughan
The Troubled adventures of a suffering trickster.
By Sally McKay and Von Bark

Paul Vermeersch
In his new collection, the poet Paul Vermeersch stands up for the beaten, the bullied, the misunderstood.
By Kerri Huffman

Darren Wershler-Henry
Collaboration is the medium of Darren Wershler-Henry’s message.
By Rachel Pulfer

City Building
“Are You ‘Modern’ or ‘Borax’?”
How John and Joanne Brook and their furniture store pulled Toronto into a new age.
By Alfred Holden

“Dupont at Zenith”
An overdue memorial to the forgotten achievements of Toronto’s twentieth-century avenue of enterprise.
By Alfred Holden

“Fake Authenticity”
The de-evolution of Toronto’s street signs attempts to showcase their magestic past, but instead displays an uninspired future.
By Alfred Holden, Conan Tobias

“Pillar of Community”
Jane Jacobs persuaded us to rethink cities. Her new book warns us to rethink societies, or else.
By Alfred Holden

“The Forgotten Stream”
Or is it? Taddle Creek, once the pride of the University of Toronto’s landscape, may be poised for a comeback.
By Alfred Holden

“The Paper Pompeii”
Imagination was the cornerstone of Beaver, a metropolis of skyscrapers, mad industrialists, and a game called “fraughpp.”
By Alfred Holden

“Plastic Patches and Cat’s Eyes”
Like most cities, Toronto embraced progress and the motor age. Unlike most, it had doubts.
By Alfred Holden

“The Playground War”
“Danger!,” screamed the school trustees, as they tore down the monkey bars.
By Alfred Holden

“The Streamlined Man”
Percy Faith smoothed out rock, jazzed the classics, and became one of the most important musicians Canada has produced.
By Alfred Holden

“This Fabulous Place”
You wouldn’t think of an aging apartment house as a good place to put down roots. Think again.
By Alfred Holden

“This Once-Fabulous Place”
How a landlord’s lack of vision led to the destruction of one of Toronto’s great architectural monuments.
By Alfred Holden

“Those Were the Days”
Despite his passing, Uno Prii’s philosophy of city living lives on in the apartment houses he left behind.
By Alfred Holden

THE CITY
“A Better (Sub)way?”
The T.T.C. is forgetting its history—in more ways than one.
By Alfred Holden

“Gods and Monsters”
Terry Murray surfed webs both modern and old to tell the grotesque story of Toronto.
By Alfred Holden

“Got Brains?”
Toronto zombies walk the walk. Slowly.
By Conan Tobias

“Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006”
Remembering Toronto’s great urban thinker, who died on April 25.
By Alfred Holden

“The Better Way”
A local typographer has done his part to preserve one of Toronto’s small charms.
By Conan Tobias

“Hand Finished”
From cat pans to lingerie, Honest Ed’s offers the most artful bargains in town.
By Conan Tobias

“Revelation”
Gerstein is worth exploring.
By Jennifer Marston

“Zine Machine”
Cutting out the middleman.
By Jenn Hardy

THE DEPT. OF ETERNAL REJECTION
“Submission Hold”
By Nathaniel G. Moore

THE ISLAND OF MISFIT CHAPTERS DEPT.
“Candy”
The lost chapter to Christmas Days.
By Derek McCormack

THE USE YOUR BRAINS, DON’T EAT THEM DEPT.
“Halloween ABCs”
A selective history of the scariest night of the year—from All Hallows to zombies.
By Derek McCormack

THE WAR OF THE WORDS DEPT.
“Slim Curiosity”
The Varsity Chapbook was an elegant early step in Toronto’s literary development.
By Conan Tobias

THE Gallery
“Down in the Alley”
Toronto’s little-seen laneways can be dynamic.
By Michael Cho, Matthew Blackett

“Aesthetics”
Karen Eull bridges the gap between old-school art and modern technology.
By Karen Eull, Conan Tobias

“We Are Amused”
The Victorian of the Month Club brings aristocracy to the bourgeoisie.
By Kristi-Ly Green, Conan Tobias

“Night of the Sewist”
Two local artists prove you’re never too old for trick-or-treat.
By Grant Heaps, Ian Phillips, Conan Tobias, Thomas Blanchard

“Fake Authenticity”
The de-evolution of Toronto’s street signs attempts to showcase their magestic past, but instead displays an uninspired future.
By Alfred Holden, Conan Tobias

“Art Waiting To Happen”
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Greg Holman’s are worth four thousand.
By Greg Holman, Conan Tobias

“Photopunk”
Jack Martin captures the vitality and the spontaneity of Toronto’s club scene.
By Jack Martin, Jason Anderson

“The Duke”
Previously unseen photographs candidly show Duke Ellington at his peak.
By Claude Miles, Conan Tobias

“The Art of Sport”
Remembering Lou Skuce, “Canada’s greatest cartoonist.”
By Lou Skuce, Conan Tobias

“The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye”
An artist faces the absurdities of aging, in a most absurd place.
By R. M. Vaughan, Sholem Krishtalka

PEOPLE AROUND HERE
Art Gallery of Ontario Summer Camp
By Dave Lapp

Avenue Road Arts School
By Dave Lapp

Cameron House
By Dave Lapp

College Park
By Dave Lapp

The Green Room
By Dave Lapp

Isabella Street
By Dave Lapp

Jet Fuel Coffee Shop
By Dave Lapp