Contents -- Introduction -- David McGimpsey -- Lasting Impressions -- Say You, Say Me, Says the Guy at the Pharmacy -- Tate Donovan's Credits -- The Gap Ads Are Killing Me -- Derek McCormack -- The History of Country Music -- George Bowering -- Sitting in Vancouver... -- Tamas Dobozy -- When X Equals Marylou -- Jennifer LoveGrove -- faultlines -- Fly Away Home -- Chicken Bone and Charcoal Sticks -- Andrew Pyper -- Dirty -- A.F. Moritz -- The Old West -- Everything in Place -- To the Still Unborn -- Maynard Ferguson Playing "Manteca" -- To the Strangers Who Talk Loud in My Ear in Public Places -- Butterfly -- Michelle Berry -- Little White Lie -- Dennis Lee -- Deeper -- The Shift -- The Shame -- The Mystery -- Jonathan Bennett -- And The Onions -- Lynn Crosbie -- Roach French Fries -- Natalee Caple -- The Lilac Fields at Pastroyeny -- bill bissett -- yu know -- whats th point -- is ths 2 intrikate caretaking -- have u herd abt th crows uv chatharn -- cum back pleez henri marshmallow -- Nichole McGill -- Blood Letting -- Sherwin Tjia -- voodoo -- Treasure Hunt -- Children & Teens -- Tony Burgess -- Monogama Me -- Patrick Rawley -- Japanese Action Figure -- My Secret Identity -- Fastest Man Alive -- Now Playing -- Brown -- Peter Darbyshire -- Bread -- Michael Holmes -- Nova Era -- Resolution -- Eddie Murphy's Aqualung -- Her Own Society -- Stephen Reid Croons -- Marnie Woodrow -- A Dog's Life -- John Stiles -- Little Buggers my mom -- Howyadoon a 'night? -- Scouts are cancelled -- Alexandra Leggat -- The Car -- George Murray -- Po-Fu: Fight-Script for the Genesis of a Canadian Poem -- Oscar Predictions for the Coming Year -- Dropped: a Baby's First Reader -- kristi-ly green -- The Happy Diary -- Ann Shin -- Speed Of Now -- Camilla Gibb -- The Summer My Feces Floated Out To Sea -- John Degen -- a girl I don't know -- bathurst -- Stephen Finucan.

Killing Rupert Nolan -- Noah Leznoff -- joining the parade -- Sister Flesh -- extra help -- fucking around -- A dragonfly -- Kate Sutherland -- Measuring Up -- Adam Sol -- You Say -- The Weight of Fire -- At the Question Market -- Susan Perly -- Dogs Plus Mingus -- Stan Rogal -- Sub Rosa -- Blaise Moritz -- Dancing rhythmically, mechanically -- Dreams of static and cyclopean walls -- We are the outer space -- Calling planet earth via the wireless and the telegraph -- Stephen Cain -- The Crystal Palace -- Centipede -- Asteroids -- Jason Anderson -- Sex Comedy -- Steve Venright -- Distended Aphorisms -- The Gated Now -- Brian Panhuyzen -- Bald Man Loogie -- David Donnell -- October -- Mick & Keith -- Dark Side of the Moon -- Red & Blue Huron Corn -- Did Keith Jarrett Ever Record... -- CBC -- Contributors.