The complete collection, grouped by issue.
A refined feline’s world is shattered when the house-sitter relegates him to canned food, locking the salmon steaks away in the freezer. Deprived of his due, he must choose between smothering the offender with affection or unleashing a fury that can no longer be contained.
In the suffocating grip of a heatwave, a woman named Antonia begins to sweat pools of salt. As a frail, daydreaming doctor and his inept intern fail to diagnose her, the apartment itself begins to weep, blurring the line between fever and reality.
A man on the run pulls into a desolate diner for a simple meal. But in a town where the inhabitants are as cracked as the linoleum floor, ordering a bacon and tomato sandwich can be a fatal mistake.
By Igor Rybak
At a book launch for a celebrated Canadian writer, a young Eastern European intellectual prepares to strike with his scathing critique. But his plans are complicated by surprisingly good cheesecake and the unshakable politeness of his target. A wry look at cultural envy and the quiet battles of the literary world.
By Igor Rybak
A tongue-in-cheek instructional guide for the aspiring literary artist. Abandon proper grammar, master the art of self-deprecating jokes, and learn to look as though you are hiding a deep, unknowable pain. Your path to un-decorated genius starts here.
By Igor Rybak
A run-on sentence is written as a bus crashes into a lamppost; a compound sentence is written in jail. This playful, poetic glossary deconstructs the building blocks of language, revealing the life behind the words.
By Pablo Garcia
What does one wish for a marriage? Perhaps a straight road, but one with gentle, exciting turns. One with pleasant scenery, adequate sunscreen, and agreeable passengers. A warm, charming poem for a life-long journey.
Which author bio is most appropriate for a story? Is it the one that speaks to the lonely path of the writer, or the one that blames his father for a petit bourgeois lifestyle? An author’s letter to the editor becomes a hilarious, meta-fictional exploration of the personae we construct.
He was a cowboy who did everything hard—especially love. After his wife’s unfortunate demise-by-bison, he sets his sights on a local widow in a beekeeping suit, all while pondering life’s great mysteries from behind his imitation Thor helmet. A story where the fanny pack is as soulful as the hero.
By Igor Rybak
On a mission to buy sugar, a young man is instead swept up by a newfound love, returning home with empty pockets and a heart full of poetry. His confession, much to his family's chagrin, marks the definitive end of verse. A charming, whimsical story told in one breathless sentence.
By Jacob Blanco
After his girlfriend sublets their apartment during the Vancouver Olympics, a man is cast adrift in his own city. Chronicling his misadventures through a series of frantic online posts, he navigates shrimp-scented coats, horrifyingly messy hosts, and a suspiciously clean couple named "Raychel" in a desperate search for a place to sleep.
By Igor Rybak
When the Queen’s limousine vanishes during a parade, a nation’s polite facade begins to crumble. Told through a series of frantic messages, this is a story of bureaucratic absurdity, romantic rivalries, and a search for a monarch gone astray.
When a friend asks you to look after his tiger for two weeks, you say yes. But what begins with building a fence in the yard evolves into a quiet shifting of power, until you find yourself living outside, gazing up at the tiger who now occupies your bedroom window.
By Sal Jackson
When a bird hits a window, who is to blame? The bird? The window? Or the window cleaner, whose impeccable work made the glass invisible? A brief, spiraling reflection on pride, perspective, and the unintended consequences of a job well done.
Cooking fish is never just cooking fish. It is a psycho-culinary journey involving forbidden thoughts, the memory of your mother's disappointment, and the delicate balance between perfectly cooked and overcooked. Please, don't pound the fish.
Frank is a terrible vampire. He hugs instead of bites, cuddles his stuffed animals, and was born on Valentine's Day. But when the vampodontist delivers the ultimate humiliation—braces—Frank finally finds his own path out of the darkness and into the human world.
By Pablo Garcia
For Derek and Jane, a wedding wish for a romance of epic proportions, illustrated by the tale of Carlos de Cervantes Garcia, who heard his love's name on the sea wind, and Bonita de Flores Perdes, who swept the steps of a fabric shop and inspired the throwing of a barrel of salted sardines at pirates.
Buck Ramer trades one Rock—Newfoundland—for another: the Moon. This sprawling, multi-generational saga follows a family through prospecting, love, loss, and alcoholism, all under the silent watch of a distant Earth. A poignant tale of what it means to search for home, whether on a planet or its satellite.
In this ten-part comic series, artist Jonathan Turner adapts Robert Walser’s classic novel about a young nobleman who runs away to join a school for servants. Turner delves into the book’s sly humour and perverse undertones, exploring a sexual dimension of servitude and submission that prominent reviews of the novel often overlook.
By Igor Rybak
Is it blasphemous to have a Chekhovian voice? In a series of sharp, witty aphorisms, the act of writing is compared to playing the piano and praying, exploring the indefinite directions to the end of language itself.