“You think we are gonna shoot any deer around here?” Jeb asked, as he and Tom ducked under the maple leaves. “I don’t know. Stop asking,” Tom said. He sat on a rock to empty the dirt, sticks and rocks from his shoes. “We’ll probably just shoot the empty cans of beer.” “Do you even [...]
Our story begins on an average day, when I decided to sell an expensive camera I’d purchased for a Journalism class. I needed the money desperately, so I placed an ad on Kijiji. The response was almost immediate: I had five or six text messages within an hour about the thing. It wasn’t just the [...]
Stand in front of the bathroom mirror and write. It doesn’t matter if fingers are moving like a tap dancer across a touchscreen, or scribbling with a dulling pencil on a notepad. Every now and then look up at the image in the mirror. Stare into its eyes as you write. Track the movement of [...]
What happened was a writer in my fiction circle shares this story that sparks a reaction from a few of the other members. The story that we had read was about a love triangle–nothing elegant like Gatsby loves Daisy and Daisy loves Gatsby and Tom hates Gatsby but also loves Daisy and Daisy still loves [...]
For the longest time I’ve wanted to write an article on the ethics of critiquing fellow writers’ fiction and non-fiction pieces. Despite our sensitive nature, critiquing is a valuable process we should all internalize to better other writers’ works as well as developing our critical skills when examining our own work. A critique which doesn’t [...]
With all the radio stations playing Christmas music twenty-four-seven, it should be that my Christmas spirit is boosted. It’s quite the opposite actually– it’s like the spirit has been locked outside the house for so long that the frosty air numbed its ability to enjoy the snowflakes. I think this yearly phenomenon is a curse [...]
Thursday night, December 20th, I arranged a camp chair to face the front door and sat. A six-pack of beer at my feet, and my Dad’s hunting rifle laying on my lap. I wasn’t sitting there because I actually believed the world was going to end. No, I was being cautious. It was the other [...]
Just the other day an old friend of mine messaged me on Facebook, asking for some tips on blogging. That person was thinking of starting their own blog and wanted some insight. To be honest, I’m an amateur blogger who is just starting to figure out how to blog consistently without posting crap about the [...]
I conjured a thought experiment while stepping off the northbound train at Chinook station. It was the afternoon, the trains were packed with smelly people, and the floors were wet with slush. As always, everyone had to squeeze through one door to escape the platform, even though there’s six doors. I find this very metaphorical [...]
I was caught at work playing Game Dev Story last week, and I’m usually discrete when playing iPhone games at my day job. Pulling my phone out underneath the desk, so the boss won’t notice. Taking extra washroom breaks, blaming the curry buffet I went to for lunch. I wasn’t scolded, nor was my phone [...]