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Red Dress Day.
This is one story.
Her name was Shannon Faith
My Red Dress
My dress was small… No, wait—my red dress was medium and red, not small and pink,pink like her parents and brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.Not large, adult, and crimson like her…
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May 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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above/ground press (b. July 1993) : Canadian-made, owned and operated : everything printed in Ottawa, hand-folded + stapled in a basement on Alta Vista,
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the above/ground press postal increase sale,
above/ground press (b. 1993) doesn’t usually offer any sales during this time of the year, but with the thirty percent increase recently via...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Bone Fragments in the Rough Fescue
A lone farmhouse stands leaning into a pervasive wind , sands blasting divets accumulating in time, deer stay skittish, with blended brown covert listening, men with claws come at me, wrecking bar …
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April 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A Bow Tie Affair in a Sunflower Field
What attire is best suited, for the afternoon the sky rained children. Do not visit this place any longer. Only pain takes root here now.
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April 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Weather Watch
I wish I could place you, rolling deafback in the thunder valleys, let yourumble distant, echoing offheaving mountainous collisionsgeological crumple zonesalready in progresslisteningI could strike…
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March 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Goose Bay
I heard there is a Lancaster at the bottom of Lake Melville,relics from the forties, wartime, when men were not found.Under the shadow of Lynx, Vulcan, and Canso,a metallic pyramid pays silent homa…
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February 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Baikonur
Roads and rail, Dromedary trail, literal the end of the line, the Cosmodrome place of fantasy and legend, under my right foot, tribute to brutal efficienciesMen dropped off nowhere, with plans to s…
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February 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Together We Write
Date: Tuesdays, beginning 11 February 2025
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual - Register below to receive your Zoom link.

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February 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Jasper
I knew you before flames came,touched your face and name, I walked every street, ate dinner with you, as candlelight grew into an infernoas a nation watched, helpless, suspended in horror, LCD nigh…
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February 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Fort Saskatchewan
The Quattro supercharged sound of the rental agency screw-upin my favor may cost me yet.Kickstart My Heart explodes from the sound system, and I am contemplatingthe cost of a police pursuit heading…
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January 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A Bow Tie Affair in a Sunflower Field
What attire is best suited, for the afternoon the sky rained children. Do not visit this place any longer. Only pain takes root here now.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Churchill
Your name conjures and stokes imaginations;None will do justice to your vastness and magnitude.The first place I thought I could die—800 testing their luck in the sea fog, slushy surf,Crushing drif…
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January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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If you have thought of lending your gift and love of writing, consider becoming a facilitator with the Writers Collective of Canada or join one of the many available workshops online and in person.

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January 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Rejection of Light
The Economics of Agreementsforged in places that no longer exist,like trust, are breaking down.Nobody knows how to grow food anymorein these unseasonably short seasons of us,and color is not what y…
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January 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Alcan Corp
“The rules are quite clear”,  you see I said lying, on the operating room table in the storage room of this delicatessen.”I needed to stop feeling is all, and somet…
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January 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Sandra Ridley's muti-vocal video poem, the Season of the Haunt from Vixen @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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The Season of the Haunt
YouTube video by Sandra Ridley
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January 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The Keys
Seven Mile Bridge, splitting the mangroves, sea grapes, palms, and unwritten turquoise—Miami in the rearview, Tequesta in the soil and sands,A mixing pot of Spanish whispers, southeastern exposureb…
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January 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM