Editor: Kent Bruyneel
Volume 31, Number 4, The Same Mistakes
Shirley Agopsowicz, Anne Blonstein, Tamara Bond, Brenda Brooks, Shannon Cowan, Matthew Duffus, Liam Ferney, Tracey Hamon, Gillian Harding-Russell, Ben Hart, Betty Jane Hegerat, Warren Heiti, Matthew Holmes, Bill Howell, Ian Donald Keeling, Shelley Leedahl, Yann Martel, Rob McLennan, Steve McOrmond, Roger Nash, John Pass, K.I. Press, Michael Quilty, Andrew Stubbs, Sam Taylor, Kim Trainor, Josh Trotter, Jason Van Blaricom, Russell Wangersky, Calvin Wharton, David Zieroth
Excerpts
by Kim Trainor
He disappeared on a Monday, the 6th of August, 1979.
She imagines it this way: He wakes at first light. Through the film of
cold water the black and white tiles remind him of a station in the London
Underground, of the stones in a game of Go. He wraps a towel around his
waist and walks into the living room where his clothes lie in a small
pile next to his sleeping bag. When he pulls them on they stick to his
wet skin. The empty room seems to have grown, is no longer cramped with
brushes and canvases, the small wire mobiles and the jars of paint. He
can still make out the indentations in the wooden floorboards where his
work table once stood.
