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Creative Spotlight: FKB

What started as four high school kids playing their favourite songs from the Beatles became a polished, high-energy indie pop band touring cities all over North America.  Lead singer Drew Shalka and drummer Derek Chalut met in junior high. The two shared...

Afraid in a corn maze

I scared myself on purpose for your reading pleasure While driving down the highway heading east towards the country, I should have remembered the old adage: Those who go looking for trouble, find it.  At the time, I couldn’t remember if that line came from...

“Hello, mommy”

I pulled my cardigan around me as I walked to the shed, the wind slamming the open door repeatedly against its frame. The sun disappeared behind heavy rain clouds, removing all warmth from the air, the cold clawing at me with skeletal fingers that sent goosebumps...

Review: BOOSH

My friend invited me to go see a band that I had never heard of before — BOOSH. The name sounded slightly funky and juvenile, but in comparison to the other bands in the line up, I knew what to expect.   At the Downtown Community League, we stood and watched the...

Review: The Last of Us – Season One

Warning: this review contains mild spoilers for HBO’s The Last of Us season 1 and Naughty Dog’s w video game based only on trailers and promotional materials When PlayStation’s crown jewel studio Naughty Dog first released The Last of Us in June of 2013,...

Reading and listening in retrospect

Looking back, I was a weird teen with weird tastes. When I consider the development of my interests, I remember I went through so many erratic changes. In junior high, I went through the inevitable and cliché emo phase. Then, as high school rolled by, I adopted the...

The Farmhouse

Dasha acquired a nervous hum at the age of eight years old when she followed her younger sister into their family’s old farmhouse to invoke a witch that supposedly haunts their maternal lineage. “I heard that she hangs kids from the ceiling after she drinks their...

Poem: Act As If

Weave yourself into your life’s tapestry.Dig deep into Fate’s opportunities.Find yourself trusting luck,then the truth:It is a miracle we are here.We are, all of us, miracles.Act as if.