Personal Essay
Moving Through Chaos
The long road to recovering from growing up in an alcoholic household.
Editor's note
Have you ever been wordstruck? So caught up in the beauty of a word or a turn of phrase that you have to pause and read it over once or twice, just to savour the rhythm, or the idea behind it? The writers I turn to again and again are the ones who provoke that feeling of wonder. I was often wordstruck as we put together this magazine, and I think you’ll feel that way as you read through the articles, stories, and essays in each section.
The words you’ll find in these pages will inspire laughter and contemplation. They’ll offer new perspectives and whisk you off on fantastic journeys. I hope you’ll find that spark of imagination as you read, and maybe you’ll walk away from our magazine prepared to do some writing yourself. Words inspire more words. That’s the incredible alchemy of the writer’s craft. That’s what it means to be Wordstruck.
Table of Contents
Personal Essay
An Invisible Grief
By Peggy Sands
Lost and Found
By Michael Belkie
Girl Down Under
By Cara Goodwin
Moving Through Chaos
By Stephanie Dor
Review
A Tale of Fraud and Deceit
By Jeanette Jones
Not the Colonel's Chicken
By James Lipsett
Humour
We Called it The Fair
By Conor Rochon
Welcome to Metalopolis
By Gina Roberts
Opinion
Taking the Fear Out of FIPA
By David Maurice
Bonfires and Broomsticks
By Nathan Mulcahy
Cracks In the Ivory Tower
By Eleanor Fogolin
The Art of the High Score
By Peter Doney
Fiction
In The Blood
By Stephen Lowe
Her Little Man
By Andrea Irvine
Everything and Nothing
By Conor Rochon
Vasily of the Saints
By Eleanor Fogolin
Cardboard Cut-Outs
By Carole Besharah
79 Fallen Garden
By Martin Dash
Satin Wedding Dress
By Ashley O'Neil
The Lit Window
By John Leonard
Review
Humour
Opinion
Fiction
In the Blood
A train heist goes wrong when four thieves are caught stealing, but their captors don't know what they're in for.
Her Little Man
A mother and her young son finally learn to understand each other in an unexpected way.
Everything and Nothing
In the midst of death and drugs, a man finds himself caught between reality and impossibility.
Vasily of the Saints
Vasily has fallen out of favour with the saints of Heaven and walks the earth seeking salvation.
Cardboard Cut-Outs
A middle grade story exploring identity and belonging through the eyes of two young artists.
79 Fallen Garden
The suicide collectors handle death every day, but can they handle the stress of the job?
Satin Wedding Dress
She has to choose between her white gown and freedom, and whatever she decides will alter her life forever.
The Lit Window
A bitter custodian struggles with self-doubt and wonders if his life will ever change.