Posts in 2022
A Day at The Beauty Supply

Mr. Park watches from his seat at the storefront. Images of the aisles flicker in a 3x3 grid on his screen. The cameras were installed last year after six boxes of Wet Tresses Kanekalon braiding hair and X-pression Kinky Twists went missing from the shelves.

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fiction, 2022SLMBrianna Johnson
A Church with the Roof Torn Off

vs. Lunenberg W 48-45 1-0

I see now that so much of what I love about basketball has nothing to do with basketball.

Before games, the nervous-heartbeat fluttering of fluorescent lights in the locker room. After practices, the wide flat brooms leaning together in the corner of the gym like crossed fingers.

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fiction, 2022SLMRob Roensch
Breadlosers

Weekends, holidays, I fold up the altar and pack the car, bring my cards to False Creek where the tourists pour through the market, seeking blown glass and crab legs, a taste of the local urbanity, perhaps a spiritual aperitif.

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Law School

My Grandma loves Law School. She asks me how Law School is on the phone. She’s so happy someone is taking care of me. She’s so proud of how well I turned out, the way I grew out of all that pesky melancholy and into a practical, well-adjusted adult.

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Window

It scares me that I lose time. It’s dawn, I’m aware, and I’m awake for fajr, standing before my bedroom window overlooking the adjacent apartment complex. But I can’t remember a moment prior.

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fiction, 2022SLMAhsan Butt
Star Quality

“A hundred now, a hundred when the job is done.”

Roberto handed me the money and winked. A lot of my clients behaved as if the concept of “half now, half later” was a concept they’d created, rather than a stipulation of the contract they’d signed.

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fiction, 2022SLMCaitlin Lydon