RERUN FRIDAY: Elusive Plenitude
BY KIM FARLEIGH Every Friday we re-post a favourite story or poem from the CommuterLit archives. Today we’re re-posting a story that first appeared on Dec. 1, 2011. A woman remembers a romance from her...
View ArticleTHURSDAY: The Smoke Under the Floorboards
BY SUSAN McCRAE Copyright is held by the author. 1941 TINA WAS BUSY weeding her small front vegetable garden, staking the runner beans and picking peas as she went. She would have to leave weeding the...
View ArticleTUESDAY: Dr. Sym Goes to Heaven
BY SHANNON SELIN Copyright is held by the author. MOTHER Céloron watched the eyelids slide back, the jaw fall slack, the tongue slump in the cracked mouth. She closed the lids but they slipped open...
View ArticleMONDAY: The Nazi Spy
BY CHRIS LAING Copyright is held by the author. This story first appeared in Chris’s short story collection, West End Kids: Tales from the Forties. I MIGHT not have agreed to deliver Moose Miller’s...
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MONDAY: Annie Rooney, Safety Guard
BY CHRIS LAING Copyright is held by the author. This story first appeared in Chris’s short story collection, West End Kids: Tales from the Forties. Image of the original official handbook cover of...
View ArticleTUESDAY: Karelian Dreams
BY LIISA KOVALA Copyright is held by the author. LEAVING HOME was a lot easier than living away. Leena had been excited when her mother explained that she’d be living in town to go to school, almost on...
View ArticleTUESDAY: Ezra and Ernest: Paris 1926, Part 2
BY MARK VICTOR YOUNG Copyright is held by the author. This is the second of a two-part story. Read the first part here. Dear Dad, Next generation (male) arrived. Both D & it appear to be doing...
View ArticleMONDAY: Jack’s Christmas
BY JASON LAWSON Copyright is held by the author. THE THUDS echoed through the woods, off of the snow-laden softwoods. With every swing of the axe, Jack ripped another piece of wood from the large...
View ArticleTHURSDAY: Spiritus Mundi
BY MARY STEER Copyright is held by the author. II HAPPENED in the Antiquities Gallery, just inside the arch and to the right. Cass was looking at a tile mosaic that had been the floor of a temple. The...
View ArticleWEDNESDAY: Not All the Heroes Were Men
BY JAN BRIGHT Copyright is held by the author. THIS IS my diary. It should have been a real diary; black or brown leather with a silk ribbon of blue or red to slip between the fine parchment paper to...
View ArticleWEDNESDAY: The Haunting of Charlotte Blackwood
BY CORINNE CLARK An excerpt for a novel-in-progress. Copyright is held by the author. Freeing the Birds Wending her way down smaller lanes and bystreets, Charlotte passed rows of ramshackle houses...
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PREVIEW FRIDAY: Weary Traveller Come Home
BY GLORIA HANSEN A novel excerpt. Copyright is held by the author. “MAMA, THERE’S a man at the gate. He wants to talk to you.” Mariah picked up her rifle from the corner. She kept it loaded. A woman...
View ArticleWEDNESDAY: Carolina
BY LARRY FLEWIN Copyright is held by the author. “UNCLE GERALD, Aunt Ellen.” “Carolina my darling, here you are at long last,” boomed Uncle Gerald. “Welcome to Tara. It’s been far too long, hasn’t it...
View ArticleMONDAY: A Moment in the Kitchen
BY GAYLE ETHERINGTON Copyright is held by the author. STANDING IN the middle of the room, I stare at the geometric design on the Formica table. The swirling circles of brown and mustard yellow are a...
View ArticleMONDAY: The (Almost) True Story of Mad Carew
BY MICHAEL JOLL Copyright is held by the author. FIRST APPEARANCES are often misleading, but not in this case. He was not the sort of man anyone in his right mind would invite to a Mess dinner, even...
View ArticleMONDAY: Where the River Goes
BY LIISA KOVALA Copyright is held by the author. TIMO AND Matti stood at the water’s edge watching the currents travel down the Wanapitei until it bent around a rocky outcrop and out of sight. “Let’s...
View ArticleTUESDAY: U 995
BY MICHAEL JOLL Copyright is held by the author. “FUCKING DANES!” Brooke stormed out of the office building in Copenhagen. Had it not been a revolving door, she would have slammed it behind her. The...
View ArticleTHURSDAY: The Crows Stole My Heart
BY WALTER GIERSBACH Copyright is held by the author. THE CROWS were shooting over the Columbia like black bullets, wheeling and sawing over the water in their spring mating dance. They’d find mates....
View ArticleRERUN FRIDAY: Not All the Heroes Were Men
BY JAN BRIGHT Every Friday we re-post a favourite story or poem from the CommuterLit archives. Today we present the story, “Not all the Heroes Were Men.” Click on the link to read.
View ArticleTUESDAY: Flight to the Frontier
BY RUTH ZAVITZ A novel excerpt. Copyright is held by the author. CHAPTER 1 A COLD west wind, blowing across the Hudson River, kicked dust in Phoebe Carey’s face as she walked home from her father’s...
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