Exploring Land, Place, and Home: Five Writing Prompts

Exploring Land, Place, and Home: Five Writing Prompts

As a Saskatchewan writer, what is our relationship to the land, to place — where is home? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately, for a host of reasons. The first reason being winter, of course. Many writers find solitude in the written word during the...
Day 111: The Unnamed Woman

Day 111: The Unnamed Woman

Day 111 – A Snippet Once a year, the small cafe with steel countertops serves a menagerie of pie; Jack Daniels and sticky walnut, lemon with meringue that beads to the roof of your mouth, pumpkin with an ever-so-crunchy lard crust; all in celebration of a day...
A Little Snippet of Things to Come – 273 Days

A Little Snippet of Things to Come – 273 Days

Here’s a nice little snippet of things to come: 273 Days. Here’s to 2025.  – Miguel F. | Day 222 out of 273 Days | Her home just off the main drag in Prince George serves as a museum for me. The walls — faint egg yolk, dying sunlight, tarnished daisy...
Dreaming of Summer: a short story

Dreaming of Summer: a short story

  The frostbitten heifer with a pink peeling nose is hauled up the steps of the silver-haired farmer’s steps, clunk, clunk, clunk. The two bedroom farm house is a mirage of gold in the screaming whorl of snow eviscerating the formerly flat and stubbled...