Treeline

This quarterly litzine is among the most highly regarded purely electronic forums in Canada, to judge by the number of other Canuck lit-sites which include it in their hotlists. The design is striking without getting in the way of the texts. The most current issue at the time of this review features three short stories about isolated and lonely individuals which are bleak in the extreme. Hopefully this is a deliberate theme and not a reflection on the personal lives of Canada’s net-based writers. Also in this issue are three humorous poems by a teacher from P.E.I. and a gallery of digital art. A welcome approach taken by this site is to include audio files of many of the authors reading their submissions, making Treeline more than just another electronic book. More sites purporting to do the artistic thing should make such an effort to put the multi- back into multimedia. (DW)

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