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Nostalgia

Salim Gold

    Nostalgia is vicious; at least, it’s vice.
Its hours come contaminated with Loss,
And liquor—a killer (like Rilke)—kicks
The mind into coma—perverse preserve.

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A Song For Tomorrow

Christina Wong

Characters

MAY, wife, speaks Cantonese (big city – Sang Wai) and English with a Chinese accent, originally from Hong Kong

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Written

Dawn Promislow

I was soon to start work on my thesis. I had a job meanwhile, in a small hotel. It was summer. We had five empty rooms, it was a slow season. I suppose that's why the owner gave her the room for forty euros a night. The German couple was paying sixty, they'd also just walked in off the street.

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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

– Constantin Brancusi

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Featured Artist

The Sirens

–John Greer

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Volunteers for Issue 8

For copy-editing this issue of MTLS thanks:

- Amanda Tripp
- Carmel Purkis
- Rosel Kim
- Julia Cooper
- Lequanne Collins-Bacchus

Acknowledgement

MTLS is grateful to Jean-Pierre Houde for his hard work on web management.

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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Stephen Potts, one of our reviewers.

April 8 to 20, 2011
The Toronto International Film Festival is celebrating the work of Gregg Araki at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

September, 2010
Pius Adesanmi, who is on the Editorial Board of MTLS, wins the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in the Non-Fiction Category.