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
Tim Beckett
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
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
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
Short Video Tribute to the Heygate
I know I haven’t posted in a long time. I’m planning a round-up, but in the meantime, here is a short video tribute to the… Read More »Short Video Tribute to the Heygate
Snow on the Heygate
Photo: Johnathon Gales A couple of new photo essays of the Heygate have turned up in my google news feed, taken during the recent… Read More »Snow on the Heygate
Valentines Day on the Heygate, 2009.
Found this on Youtube this morning: Mostly old folks gathered in a community hall – I”m guessing the hall behind what used to be the… Read More »Valentines Day on the Heygate, 2009.