Summer Number, 2002
VOL. V, NO. 2, WHOLE NUMBER 8
FICTION
“The Useless”
By Hal Niedzviecki
“Good and Happy”
By Alexandra Leggat
“The Snow Grave”
By Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg
“The Benefit”
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun
“Two Night Before Christmas”
By Camilla Gibb
“Horse Feathers”
By Derek McCormack
“One Sweet Dawn”
By Jason Anderson
“Neighbours”
By Peter Darbyshire
“Summerland”
By Andrew Daley
Literary Activism
“Past Due”
By Jim Munroe
Illustrated Fiction
“21st Century Soviet Scientist Predictions”
By Ian Phillips
Profiles
Camilla Gibb
Author transforms from first-time novelist to writer with The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life.
By Rebecca Caldwell
Paul Vermeersch
In his new collection, the poet stands up for the beaten, the bullied, the misunderstood.
By Kerri Huffman
City Building
“The Playground War”
“Danger!,” screamed the school trustees, as they tore down the monkey bars.
By Alfred Holden
Poems
“The L-Bomb”
By Paul Vermeersch
“Road Trip, Southern Ontario, 1999”
By Stuart Ross
“Or—”
By Jennifer LoveGrove
“Ida Red”
By Kathleen Olmstead
“Mint”
By R. M. Vaughan
“Bicycles”
By John Degen
“Awkward D.J.”
By Chris Chambers
“Best Violin”
By Emily Pohl-Weary
“Hoop”
By Elana Wolff
Cover Star
Laura Tobias, circa 1943. Photograph by M. Fred Tobias.
