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Earlier in my career, I was a teacher at a high school in Vancouver’s east side. When I was first hired there in the late 90s, one of my colleagues told me that it was “a jewel of a community” and “the best East End school you’d never heard of.” And she was right. I…

I wiped the sleep from my eyes. The clock across the room glared red, 3:32 AM. Who could have possibly texted this late at night? Reaching across the pillow, I picked up my phone from the end table. Apparently someone liked my face and my dry attempts at humor on Tinder. I opened up the…

How did I get on a missing persons poster?? I had heard this word “Existential Crisis” thrown around quite a bit in books, and never fully knew what it meant. But as I stood by the bathrooms in the grocery store, waiting for my sister, I looked up and found a picture of myself from…

Warning: This story contains graphic violence. When I was a kid living on a small farm in Minnesota, my family had a dirt bike. Actually, if I remember correctly, it was really just a small motorcycle. My (incredibly short) mom used to ride alongside my dad’s chunky Goldwing Honda, but as she got older she…

A few days ago, the stars aligned and I went out on a date with a guy. It went well, and by the end, we were swapping dating horror stories, (of which I have plenty). I shared a pretty intimate story about a past experience with an ex, which was when it got serious. He…

I got this package in the mail from my dad: brown paper wrapping, large but flat, with the word “FRAGILE” written on it in black ink. When I unwrapped it, it was this big, acrylic painting, framed in some sort of bronze-gilded plaster. The painting itself was of this long hallway full of doors, kind…

I was never much for Halloween mazes; there were a lot better ways I could think of to spend 35 dollars. I guess I never saw the point knowing it’s not real and all. I mean really, how scary can a bunch of actors and smoke machines really be? Steve though…he was so amped to…

Carinne’s long brown hair is fanned out across her bed. She’s beginning to stretch and stir several minutes before her alarm goes off. It’s her late alarm because it’s Saturday. Slowly, she gets out of bed. With bleary eyes she walks down the hall to the bathroom. She can’t help but notice how quiet the…

Most teens tend to do stupid things, and I certainly wasn’t an exception to the rule. My mistakes seem to bare down on me more than the usual person however. You see, my mistakes lead to a drunken car accident with the love of my young life at the time. A woman who will never…