spring 2016
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I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation
Christopher Evans
Year In Review
Starling Advice
Amie Whittemore
Unavailable
On Buying a Second Pair of Birkenstocks
Pamela Mosher
All Bones Hunger a Home
Algonquin
Ashley-Elizabeth Best
A conversation with a massage therapist
Francine Cunningham
There's So Much to Tell You
On Some Good Days
Alison Braid
Ottawa Hospital: Eating Disorder Ward
Fan Palms
Mallory Tater
air mattress
the clinic printed off a calendar
B.J. Best
A conversation with a massage therapist
What are you?
Excuse me?
You don’t look all white.
I’m Indigenous.
Oh, well what kind of native are you?
Cree.
You don’t really look it.
I am also Scottish and Métis on my dad’s side.
Were you raised on a reserve?
No, I was raised in the city.
Oh, well I guess you’re not a real one then, right?
. . .
What do you do?
I’m a student.
High school upgrading?
No, I’m getting my masters degree.
Well, good thing you got the taxpayers to pay for it right? Wish I could go to school for free.
. . .
Anyways, I guess you’re one of the good ones, right?
What?
Well, you’re not a drunk or anything, good for you.
. . .
Ok, turn over let me get to your back.