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graphic fiction
- A Sunset Daniel Ha
- Pieces ~ obsessions Ainsley Olsen
nonfiction
- Eating Beets During Menopause ~ obsessions Donna Caruso
- How to Stop a Suicide Cynthia Dockrell
- Always into you, all ways ~ obsessions AC Fraser
- The Perfect Day Kathy Page
~ obsessions Janet SmithI 
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poetry
- My Constant Companion Michelle Barker
- Constraint on An Uneasy Sea ~ obsessions Julie Mahfood
- Commonplace (2) Rusty Morrison
- Commonplace (3) Rusty Morrison
- Motherhood ~ obsessions Lesley Pasquin
- From Wandering Mortal José-Flore Tappy
Translated by John Taylor - In Defense of the Canon ~ obsessions Priscila Uppal
fiction
- Pastel Fear Raymond Bock
Translated by Pablo Strauss - Bruno ~ obsessions (audio) Cristal Duhaime
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Bring the Doll to Life – An Obsessive Childhood
Taylor Tower
“Bring the Doll to Life” was told by Taylor Tower at This Really Happened at Café Sarajevo on December 6, 2011. [Read more...]
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On Obsessions – Editor’s Note
The word obsessions often comes with negative connotations. It’s not healthy to have obsessions (think OCD, hoarders, or stalkers). But where would we be without them? [Read more...]
poetry
My Constant Companion
Michelle Barker
We listened to talk shows
and requiems,
chatted about acid rain,
flirted a little. [Read more...]
nonfiction
How to Stop a Suicide
Cynthia Dockrell
First, drink six beers and smoke three joints. Since it’s a Saturday night in the 1970s and you’re in college, this is what you’re supposed to do. Be delighted that by midnight, your room is packed. Like you, everyone has been consuming various substances, which makes such things as the guy playing air-harmonica to a J. Geils record extra funny. [Read more...]
fiction
Pastel Fear
Translated by Pablo Strauss
Author: Raymond Bock (“Peur pastel” from Atavismes, Montreal: Le Quartanier, collection Polygraphe, 2011)
Glass is cool; cork coarse; parsley crisp. In these moments of weakness I feel the weight of unspeakable events around every corner. I’ve dreamt my death a few times, both asleep and awake. [Read more...]
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carte blanche is a not-for-profit project published by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. As an online literary publication, we rely on funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the support of individual sponsors. [Read more...]