Audio Version Here. Note: This is the Stuart McLean-Margaret Atwood fan-fiction I mentioned last week. I’m not sure it’s what The CBC Short Story Prize was looking for but in the week after a Canadian federal election shaped by annexation threats, I thought a few of you might enjoy reading…
Category: Art & Culture

Inquiring The Way of Jules Octavian
Audio Version Here. The laneway is narrow, a little rough and worn. It leads into a tidy mixed forest of maple, birch, and the odd pine. Mature, healthy, second growth forest minimally tended over generations by expert hands. Something you’d only notice if you were looking for it, and even…

Aliens
Audio Version Here If intelligent life capable of intergalactic space travel exists, then it seems likely they would avoid contact with us. At best they may observe us like researchers studying wolves in the arctic. Perhaps we have caught the scent, the odd glimpse, or even been put under long…

Poems Won’t Buy Beer
Audio Version Here Canadian poet Al Purdy once urinated on literary icon Margaret Atwood’s car. Poets often miss the limelight and Canadian poets doubly so on the world stage but Purdy was different – often cited as the first Canadian poet to be different. In one sense he could be…