Fiction

Condo Dwellers

By Alain Mercieca Condominiums, apartment buildings, call them what you will. Rectangular box friends that protrude out of most every […]

Inexorable

By Greg Shupak There was a rumour that I was dead. Actually, I survived. *** “Oh my God! Oh I’m […]

The Napoleon Difference

By Julia Campbell-Such Bone splinters, pure-white like expensive china. Smell of talcum powder, morphine, sterilizers. Cracking, splitting, sawing. Tired and […]

Field Guide to Kleptoparasitism

Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Runner-Up By Braydon Beaulieu I stole my neighbour’s newspaper this morning. He has never noticed my […]

Brink

Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Winner by David Griffin Brown “It’s your baby too,” Lily said. “It’s only fair you help […]

Last Winter Here

By Emma Healey Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2008 Curtains. I take an English lit class once a week in this […]

Sickness

By Jessica Faulds Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2008 After he graduated from high school, receiving honours and an award for […]

Panties

By Greg Kearney Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Runner-Up 2008 All my favourite panties, ruined. I pull one pair after another out […]

Amsterdam at Midnight

By Graham Parke Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Champion 2008 I can’t sleep and head out, wondering how long this can go […]

Reckoning

By Salvatore Difalco He saw himself tented, with a little plastic window. Inside there, looking out. He saw the talking […]

do i look like i’m smiling?

By Catherine Paquette July.2.____ mother thinks i am a maniac. today i told her i was a terrorist and she […]