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EMBODY & GRIEF FOR HIRE

Launch of Verity La Anthology No. 2 EMBODY What does it mean to be embodied in human or animal form? How does our body — its size, colour, race, gender, …

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Alise BlayneyDavid StavangerEileen ChongEmbodyGrief for HireKaren HughesLaura McPhee-BrowneLes WicksMichele SeminaraRobbie CoburnScott-Patrick MitchellTricia Dearborn

Knives (Ben Walter)

(Edited by Laura McPhee-Browne) In our house right now the most popular show is the cooking one produced in jail. The inmates are not allowed knives which makes the whole …

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The Bougainvillea Tree (Laura McPhee-Browne)

for Marjorie Barnard I saw two summers in one year once and I won’t forget it. Only once. I had started to heal by then, and often thought of no …

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Our Lady Godiva (Laura McPhee-Browne)  

I was the kind of kid who made it hard for people to like me. That’s what my dad always said, to my face in front of any old person …

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  • About
    • The Journal
    • An editorial-shaped box
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  • Vault
    • Fiction
      • Lies to Live By
      • Being Sure
    • Interviews
      • Lighthouse Yarns
    • Non Fiction
      • Rogue State
      • Verity La Forum
    • Poetry
      • Heightened Talk
      • Spoken Word
    • Reviews
      • Through the Looking Glass
    • Projects
      • Black Cockatoo
      • Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project
      • Discoursing Diaspora
      • Disrupt
      • Out of Limbo
  • Poetry Podcast
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