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Waiting

Fiction
  Two days. When they summoned me here they said just a couple of hours. Two days. You’d think they’d…

Mother’s Hats

Fiction
  London was the Mecca of hats for my mother and a shopping trip with her meant something for me…

Gay Kay

Fiction
  When Kay told his parents the topic of his final-year project, a hush descended over the room, magnifying the…

Deb’s Delight

Fiction
  A small grimy engine with a high smoke stack and prairie-type buffers pulled a string of tarnished brown coaches…

Big Face

Fiction
  The first time it happened he was sitting in the green-fronted UBC café on Renmin Lu, watching the waitresses…

Under the Minarets

Fiction

The moon is as ripe and heavy as a piece of fruit about to fall. Above us, the domes loom, fat and golden. Minarets conjure Samarkand, Bukhara, St. Petersburg. Beyond the lawns, the Number Two to Rottingdean chugs past.

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