Crossings
From Granta: I was standing in front of our old house: 168 Atomic Drive, Uranium City. The street numbers just visible next to what remained… Read More »Crossings
Misfits
Published in Urban Graffiti The camp was at the end of a dusty logging road, a hundred kilometers up from the highway. The only… Read More »Misfits
Youth
Published in Urban Graffiti She was striking, with high Indian cheekbones and olive skin and long brown hair she’d tied back in a ponytail with… Read More »Youth
Going Back to the Old Hotel
published as ‘The Hotel’ in the Evergreen Review, Jan 2013 Weeds rise from the cracks in the underbrush along the edge of the parking lot,… Read More »Going Back to the Old Hotel
Uranium City Return, Back to Edmonton
published in Urban Graffiti, December, 2011 I hadn’t been back to Edmonton in nearly 20 years, not since I’d passed through with my parents at… Read More »Uranium City Return, Back to Edmonton
Uranium City Return – An Excerpt
Published in Sensitive Skin Magazine, Fall 2011 At the end of the road, an airstrip appears, as unexpected as a landing pad for aliens. Instinctively,… Read More »Uranium City Return – An Excerpt
Finding Myself on the Heygate Estate
I moved onto the Heygate Estate in the fall of 2007, after answering an ad in Loot. Twenty years before, when I’d lived in a… Read More »Finding Myself on the Heygate Estate
Going back home to Uranium City
The vehicles began streaming in on Friday morning and by late afternoon almost 600 people had arrived at the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park for… Read More »Going back home to Uranium City
Notes from the Cut-Block
A truck horn goes off in the cold pre-dawn, pulling you awake into the gloom of your tent. Limbs and head and back ache with… Read More »Notes from the Cut-Block