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“trying to teach them technology” By Julia in her cabin
Monday February 27, 2017 4:47pm 5 minutes from a text my sister turns 32 and the entire family eats stuffed lobster tail and shrimp they gather around the table and tell each other some of the same...
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“I felt stung” by Sasha on her couch
Sunday February 26, 2017 10:29pm 5 minutes Dear Sugar Radio When Heloise first saw Penelope, she knew that they’d been cut from the same piece of floral corduroy. It had nothing to do with the hands...
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“bigger than my hand laid out flat” by Julia on the other chair
Monday March 27, 2017 9:29pm 5 minutes from an assignment If we’re trading in gesutures… I extend my hand I look you in the eye I wait for you to meet me you take my hand we do the cheorgraphed move...
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“The pleasures and perils of a drug-altered mind” by Julia at JJ Bean
Thursday May 4, 2017 at JJ Bean 2:16pm 5 minutes Vancouver Sun Thursda May 4, 2017 My aunt Barb tells me that she wrote herself a note when she “wasn’t straight” about how the “negativity is too loud...
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“This is what you’ve been waiting for” by Sasha at her desk
Friday May 5, 2017 6:15pm 5 minutes The Gate Marie Howe We met on a Wednesday. I remember that. Iron and Wine was playing. Melissa was having people over to celebrate her “retirement”. She wasn’t...
View Article“I felt stung” By Julia in her cabin
Sunday February 26, 2017 10:19pm 5 minutes Dear Sugar Radio I don’t have any memories of my mother’s father. He died when I was three, lived in Italy, and I only met him a couple times. The first...
View Article“meeting your heart’s longing.” by Julia on the 99
Tuesday September 5, 2017 8:12pm 5 minutes The Invitation Oriah Hello, I say to her tender teeth and Milky Way. Hello, hello you humming bird wing you olive oil drenched skin you whistling Lilly I...
View Article“The next time he comes over” by Julia at her desk
Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:57pm 5 minutes The Possible Universe Claire Halliday The next time he comes by, in dream or almost, I’m going to make sure I taste his lips. Last time the whole sleep...
View Article“Come prepared with questions” by Sasha at her kitchen table
Friday April 27, 2018 7:33pm 5 minutes From the Verses Festival of Words 2018 program He got there first. I’m early. He’s got a beard. He didn’t have a beard when I googled him, none of the photos did....
View Article“the woman’s anonymous appearance” by Sasha at her kitchen table
Sunday November 4, 2018 8:21am 5 minutes Beauty Beheld Sara Harowitz The woman appears in what she always knew she’d be wearing in this moment, an outfit she’s thought about more than any other thing...
View Article“He got a gun to his head” by Julia on her couch
Saturday September 17, 2016 at the Shadbolt Centre 11:43am 5 minutes Overheard at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts If there’s a reason why we’re meeting here, none of us know it yet. The sky is dark...
View Article“I’m ecstatic to announce” by Julia on the reading chair
Friday September 30, 2016 7:34am 5 minutes a Facebook post There’s a new woman in my father’s life. He has been hiding it from me since they started seeing each other and maybe he had good intentions...
View Article“special thank you” by Julia at her dining table
Saturday October 1, 2016 9:11pm 5 minutes a Vista print ad Today Corinne told me to look into his face and tell him what I appreciate about him. I was like, Corinne, I don’t have anything to say that...
View Article“New Adventures” By Julia at Paper Crane Coffee
Wednesday February 8, 2017 1:48pm 5 minutes from a postcard Jackie meets me at the coffee shop bundled up in too many layers and chapped lips. She shakes off her scarf and laughs a little at the snow...
View Article“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” By Sasha at her desk
Sunday July 7, 2019 12:15pm 5 minutes Philippians 4:13 Oh my God! Hey! How’s it going?! I’m glad that you’re happy. Really I am. I mean, that’s what I always wanted for you, I guess I’m just not really...
View Article“That was my first personal encounter” by Julia on her couch
Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:31pm 5 minutes Some Freaks David Mamet He and I, remember Andy? Didn’t like to be called Andrew, God knows why. I tried, Sal, I did. I used to say, Andrew my love, to disguise...
View Article“Negotiate with agents” by Julia at her friend’s table in Ottawa
Friday, October 4, 2013 1:09pm 5 minutes What Is Dramaturgy Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Waiting at the cross walk for you to come meet me at the corner of where our houses meet....
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Friday December 13, 2013 11:14pm 5 minutes metro weekend December 14-15, 2013 Neither was expecting it to happen. Man was on the witness stand. Woman was on the Jury. She had been furious when she...
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Thursday January 16, 2014 2:05am 5 minutes the drinks card at FRESH She was sitting down, the only other person in the restaurant aside from the server. Rumour has it the chefs step out of the...
View Article“set a time, a location, and a few basic rules” by Julia at the Marriott in...
Monday May 5, 2014 4:01pm 5 minutes Beautiful Trouble Edited by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell We decided on a Sunday cause of that song–you know the one, it’s that mellow feel good...
View Article“September I’ll remember” by Julia on her couch
Thursday, July 17, 2014 9:10pm 5 minutes April Come She Will Simon And Garfunkel Having met you that one day, it uh, it really rocked me. It was like meeting the moon. Does that make..I’m just. I’m...
View Article“thank you for your hate” by Julia in Piazza del Francia
Monday October 27, 2014 1:09pm 5 minutes from an e-mail I’ve received numerous letters from viewers this week and I wanted to share with you the major themes they all have in common. As you are well...
View Article“we were never meant to be admired” by Sasha at her kitchen table
Thursday February 5, 2015 5:13pm 5 minutes Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein There she is All round wisdom He was inside of her Eight hundred years ago It aches in my though Still It’s...
View Article“I met my first savant 52 years ago” By Julia on the A train
Saturday, August 1, 2015 3:30am 5 minutes http://blogs.scientificamerican.com I didn’t want to meet him. I wasn’t really in the position of meeting someone outside my own brain let alone someone...
View Article“Why do we do that?” By Julia at Christie Pits Park
Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:48pm 5 minutes Overheard on the Spadina streetcar So I met her on a subway platform. She was going to jump and I didn’t say anything. I just stood close to her thinking...
View Article“The people Fred wanted me to meet” by Julia on her couch
Sunday, December 20, 2015 7:12pm 5 minutes from the back of matches He was excited to have me over, I could tell cause he was wearing a pressed shirt and up until then I had only ever seen him in a...
View Article“Secret Sundays” by Julia in her bed
Thursday January 28, 2016 12:12am 5 minutes A Mission Kitsilano business card There’s a few of us who meet at dusk and always on Sundays. Meredith came up with the idea but had no real concept of how...
View Article“if something opens up” by Julia at her dining table
Saturday, July 16, 2016 1:14am 5 minutes from a text I’m waiting in line at the store planning to buy this canned tuna and a clue because I got hungry just waiting and looking at the food Seron said...
View Article“We hopped on bikes with banana seats” by Julia on her couch
Tuesday August 23, 2016 7:04am 5 minutes parent.co It might have been 40 degrees out. It felt like we had already sweat off most of our top skin anyway. The trees were dense with moisture. Heavy like...
View Article“Take a moment to remember” By Julia on the 4
Monday August 12, 2019 12:55pm 5 minutes the bus instructions Well I have 5 minutes to remember my whole life and i know I have more memories than time. I remember you sitting above me in the lecture...
View Article“He straightened up, roaring” by Sasha at her kitchen table
Friday September 27, 2019 9:41pm 5 minutes Surface Detail Iain M. Banks His strange hurting is not mine to hold alone now one way of building the house brick by brick choosing the funny and misshapen...
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