VOL. V, NO. 2, WHOLE NUMBER 8 

FICTION
“The Useless” [1]
By Hal Niedzviecki

“Good and Happy” [2]
By Alexandra Leggat

“The Snow Grave” [3]
By Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg

“The Benefit” [4]
By Mary-Lou Zeitoun

“Two Night Before Christmas” [5]
By Camilla Gibb

“Horse Feathers” [6]
By Derek McCormack

“One Sweet Dawn” [7]
By Jason Anderson

“Neighbours” [8]
By Peter Darbyshire

“Summerland” [9]
By Andrew Daley

Literary Activism
“Past Due” [10]
By Jim Munroe

Illustrated Fiction

“21st Century Soviet Scientist Predictions” [11]
By Ian Phillips

Profiles
Camilla Gibb [12]
Author transforms from first-time novelist to writer with The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life.
By Rebecca Caldwell

Paul Vermeersch [13]
In his new collection, the poet stands up for the beaten, the bullied, the misunderstood.
By Kerri Huffman

City Building
“The Playground War” [14]
“Danger!,” screamed the school trustees, as they tore down the monkey bars.
By Alfred Holden 

Poems
“The L-Bomb” [15]
By Paul Vermeersch

“Road Trip, Southern Ontario, 1999” [16]
By Stuart Ross

“Or—” [17]
By Jennifer LoveGrove

“Ida Red” [18]
By Kathleen Olmstead

“Mint” [19]
By R. M. Vaughan

“Bicycles” [20]
By John Degen

“Awkward D.J.” [21]
By Chris Chambers

“Best Violin” [22]
By Emily Pohl-Weary

“Hoop” [23]
By Elana Wolff

Cover Star
Laura Tobias, circa 1943. Photograph by M. Fred Tobias.

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