Sometimes I can sense anxiety attacks before they come. That familiar pressure starts building up in my chest, like someone dropped a brick straight…

Adults love to say children know nothing. Children love to believe they hold the knowledge of the world in their little hands. Personally, I…

Christmas was going to be different this year. Of course, Sylvia had decided it would be the moment she’d told her dad she would…

The rough unsanded floorboards drew blood from her knees. She rejoiced, mistaking it for blood from her womb, before realizing its true source. She…

Lillian hears a voice but doesn’t know where it is coming from.  Before this interruption, she was enjoying a late afternoon mug of tea…

*Formatting best viewed on desktop* James Brennan is a second year English Major, concentrating in Creative Writing at Carleton University. James has fallen in…

Track 1 – Suburbia Muddy swamp water stares me in the face, my reflection suffocated by petroleum-thick sludge. Funny how it used to seem…

What Grows in Isolation I did not expect the world to be so quiet when I finally felt ready to step back into it.…

The Outside  Mr. and Mrs. Davidson lived in a bungalow in a cul-de-sac, right across from a house occupied by Ms. Ray and her…