Fiction

Groundnut Soup As the shadows lengthened, Auntie Atta and her twin brother Dominic pulled up in front of my house. Auntie lugged a steaming cauldron of groundnut soup out of the trunk of their rented car and struggled up the steps. I opened the...

Whitewash   Everything was cold and unfamiliar and I hated it immediately. I thought, this house is dead. Of course, that’s why you chose it. This was your “fresh start,” as though we could peel off our old lives like layers of dead skin....

We Are All Scarred   I stood outside the concert hall, leaning against the brick wall and listening to the local band inside playing some punk rock version of Mmmmm Bop made famous by that goddamn pop group Hanson.  The band was off...

The ‘Unholy Bible’: King Lucifer’s Version (Novel Excerpt)     PROLOGUE The end is near I must tell you. And just in case I don’t make it, I hereby give you my memoir, my autobiography. I don’t pretend to make it as poetic and...

Imitation of Life (Novel Excerpt) I was born too soon.  Mine was not an easy birth.  Nature failed to take its course.  From my mother’s womb I was untimely ripped, torn out of the darkness and thrust into the light.  I was six weeks prema...

Afternoon of the Sail-Makers   Dockyard Port comes into view from the ferry, like a jagged stone scar against blue sky, bluer water. Lexi looks over her shoulder to see if her husband has noticed, but he’s facing the other way, watching t...

Tree   Old man dying. Shrinking into his own essence. Oxygen lifelines bubbling through water like the springs of eternity. Tubes, pills of every colour, food cut so small a mouse could swallow it. Young woman alive. Earthbrown, her skin...

Conjugating   “Stanley Shliome, would you, would you believe it. Your uncle just got up and went to Winnipeg. I came home from the clinic at the hospital and there was a note. I knew right away something was up when I saw it on the kitchen c...