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TW: death, postpartum anxiety I know a black one would have fit your aesthetic better, but the woman said they don’t use black for dairy. Oh no we love…

Jul 20 •

You heard what happened there? he asked, his eyes probing mine for a flicker of registration. I scanned his face. We told ourselves that it was our duty…

Jul 5 •

June 2024

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Jun 27 •

January 2022

I’m pregnant now. I told a lot of friends early on. I never considered keeping it a secret. I adopted the refrain “Well if I miscarry I’ll just end up…

Jan 21, 2022 •

October 2021

I disappeared for a bit. A few things happened that left me shrinking. Shrinking from others is one thing, but shrinking from your own mind is a…

Oct 21, 2021 •

July 2021

Swimming For Your Life

There are times when terrible, cataclysmic things happen, and you grip the walls, demanding an answer on how the walls could look on and not intervene…

Jul 31, 2021 •

June 2021

Butterfly Ghosts

This is it. It’s the beginning. This is how it starts. And yet here you are in the middle of it, just stopped, holding your things: all the things you…

Jun 9, 2021 •

May 2021

I hate that sound, I said. About the train horn in the distance, at night. We used to hear that sound in Edmonton, my dad said. Lying in bed. At ten…

May 23, 2021 •

April 2021

When the pandemic first started, and we were asked to stay home, some people ran into the ring of the suffering Olympics and held up their tiny internet…

Apr 30, 2021 •

Apr 10, 2021 •

March 2021

I wrote this piece in October 2019: before the pandemic, before my mother died, and one year after my grandmother’s death. I wrote it from a place of…

Mar 10, 2021 •

February 2021

Oh it’s HEAVEN out right now! Is it raining there? It’s nice here. We are a seven minute drive apart, but the mountains make many mini-weathers in North…

Feb 23, 2021 •

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