What You Are Looking For Is What Is Looking
Naz is half an hour late to see Matthew when she steps out of the Uber on University Avenue and realizes she has forgotten what he looks like.
Issue 69: Spring 2025
Fiction
You Are Contractually Obligated to Withstand Violence
You see yourself again in the window of a foreclosed travel agency.
Marmot
Over the past several months I have felt the presence of my death growing stronger—like an infant who, both quickly and slowly, begins to crawl and then to walk and then to run, and in this way takes on the shape of the life it will live.
Hybrid/Experimental
A space for exploring experimental and multi-form writing in combination with disciplines including (but not limited to) visual art, mixed-media, science and technology, audio, performance, and video; a space of endless possibility.
Poetry
Nomenclature
In England they name the old oak trees; in Newfoundland, they name the rocks.
Essays
Apartment Block Archives
My grandmother's cooking always tasted like tobacco.
Before We Begin
Before we begin, the first thing you should know is that my father is a ghost.
Interviews
“What We Lose is Synonymous with Death”: A Conversation with Farah Ghafoor
Industry is everywhere in Farah Ghafoor’s debut collection Shadow Price.
“Wrestling with Questions of Identity and Belonging”: A Conversation with Zilla Jones
I first came across Zilla Jones’s work in 2020, when her story “Our Father” was longlisted for the CBC Short Story Contest.
Reviews
Futility and Betrayal in Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts
What counts as a dealbreaker in modern dating?
Dark Entries: A Review of Dead Writers
Dead Writers is a series of literary case studies in the lies we tell ourselves in order to go on living.
“I’m not leaving / without you”: Forging Joy in Natalie Lim’s Elegy for Opportunity
Some books arrive in your life exactly when they are most needed.
