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Windshield Wipers
This piece was shortlisted for the 2024 WestWord Flash Prize.
I'm so sorry that I left the windshield wiper halfway up. I'm sorry it stuck up like your sore thumb with no way to come down from its high, the kind of high you were on as I behaved like myself again, that way that nobody but you would put up with in all those million years I've stayed.
Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland: a review
The honor of reviewing Alvina Chamberland’s autofiction was all mine this summer. Hers is a book that makes you question the world. It makes you think, really think, it makes you step out of your comfort zone and into some of the realities that shape her life and that of so many other trans women who aren't seen for who they are but for their bodies instead.
White World - Saad T. Farooqi: a Review
White World by Saad T Farooqi is a book of violence. It is also a book of love, of family, of perseverance. Of a country divided, a country aflame in religious conflict, its reach ever increasing from Pakistan’s historical independence in 1947 to the dystopian future in 2083 that the book is set in.
Forgive Me While I Run
What will it be this time
the thing
that I did wrong
the thing
I didn't do
the flaw
that I am
Emily Strasser Speaks the Unspeakable
"There's hope, so much hope, in this recurring opportunity to shift our story—but will we ever grab it by its horns and seek out peace, real peace for once, once and for all?"
Rubble Children - Aaron Kreuter: a Published Book Review
Rubble Children is a clever collection of seven and a half interwoven stories on the historical trauma inserting itself into the day-to-day life of Jewish youth in Canada.