After Natalia Ginzburg’s “He and I” He likes working on the patio. I prefer cooking up a stew or pouring out cocktails. I do the grocery shopping, take the car to the mechanic, and ferry cardboard to the recycling centre. He keeps the house plants alive, launders the sheets and towels, and fills...
A Bop Reports note Crocodiles with leather purses. Mountain Goats in puff sleeve boho shirts. Animals foregoing shoes, and girls, now Toucans, selling their Kia Souls to fly wingtip-to-wingtip to work, while Rabbits sleep on their husbands’ heads, hearts beating slow despite the predators next door...
Reviewed by Eva Crocker Maggie Burton, A Temporary Grace (Breakwater Books, 2026), 220pp., $22.95. Maggie Burton’s short story collection A Temporary Grace grounds big questions about how technology is changing the way we relate to each other in a refreshingly contemporary St. John’s. Her...
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The cuckoo has laid its eggs in my (mother’s) brain. It found the cerebrum a spongy roost, an almost natural habitat and now, flying the coop, expects me to take care of the babies. I consult a field guide. Learn the cuckoo is a strange relative of the roadrunner, its song a series of hollow...
A Q&A with L’Amour Lisik, Plenitude Magazine In collaboration with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 12 to 18, 2026, former Plenitude prose editor L’Amour Lisik interviews VFA panelist Daniel Zomparelli, who will participate in Amusement Dark: Three Novels, an in...
