All I want is to save the library. But a greedy heiress and a grumpy dragon lawyer complicate everything. Especially when that dragon lawyer insists I'm his fated mate. Maybe this Halloween, I'm going to do both the tricking and the treating?Harold Greaves promised ten years of funding to our little town library. I believed him right up until the will was read, and everything went to his scheming niece instead. Now I've got a week to prove the new will is a fake… o...

I came to Saltford Bay for a fresh start. I didn't expect it to come with a big, broody orc who thinks smiling is a crime and I'm a disaster waiting to happen.He might be right. I might also want to kiss him. Both can be true.Newly divorced and armed with nothing but grit, strong coffee, and a Pinterest board full of impossible dreams, my plans to renovate a crumbling seaside lodge are jeopardized by the town's grumpiest, greenest contractor.Gerralt...

"A flick of the wristand the worldin shards of coloured glass, shifts."Magic and wisdom gestate in the moments of our quotidian lives, ripening in our memories. With humour and insight, Marie-Andrée Auclair and Adrienne Stevenson reflect on the passage of time and its endless changes, exploring shifting relationships in our restless world.For more than a decade, these Ottawa writers shared their poems-in-progress, only to realize thei...

A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives,other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we?Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand andlearn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth theeffort to take on these points of view sparked Existere’s Volume 37Issue 2.From trying on your mother’s clothes to embracing some neongreen runners to talking loudly about important ...

Maude Abbott's story is a testament to resilience and determination, an inspiring journey of a medical pioneer in Canada.Maude Abbott cherishes the dream of going to university. She even wants to become a doctor. But a 19th century woman has no place in that world of men. Equipped with an exceptional intelligence, and through perseverance and hard work, Maude will take her place to become one of the first women physicians in Quebec. She will even come to enjoy a worldwide reputatio...

Growing up has always been hard work, but our 37.1 Fall/Winter 2017/2018 edition perfectly documents life’s strenuous journey. Though we may have had different upbringings, we have all faced adversity and milestones. Whether it was overcoming personal, academic, professional or social hurdles, life has seen us through them all. Our 37.1 edition is structured to explore and highlight key points of the life that our authors and artists have created through their submissions.There com...

A book-length prose-poem about that dangerous creature with the sting in its tail, the most passionate sign in the Zodiac, and the complicated nature of human desire.

The first collection of poems and short stories by young writer, Kate Greenlee. Thirteen poems and two short stories make up a varied selection of styles and subjects; from the supernatural to the political, Greenlee deals with themes around feminism and femininity, mathematics, body image and violence in the modern world. ‘Ghosts in the Attic’ is a short selection of crafted works, a well-fitting debut.

Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the ac...

Experience, imagination, exploration.Diverse as the world around us.Eclectica will take you on a journey.Some fun parts, some heavy parts, some soulful parts.You'll see some of me, you'll see some of you.I have laid down the stories.The meaning you find among them will be your own.My first foray into poetry,Come, take this journey with me.

A simple little rhyme to mark the passing time and start to see a cacophony flood free of brand new imagery that hangs on a wing with each new bird that sing its own wondering. Whereupon I knew no wrong or right - that was the power of brand new insight: just to hold real tight into imagination flight and see the light shatter constant useless clatter - the chatter of null-sum became a quiet hum and in its own good place, I saw that there was space for the new to race free: welcome, design...

In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted—only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit's rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the security state can come from anyplace. The problem of identity becomes acute. The poems in Just Saying may be imagined as c...