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Oops! We set out with expectations. It is these expectations that determine the paths that we will decide to take. If we are looking for water, we follow the sounds of the trickling stream. If we want snow,...
Eureka! Many of the best discoveries came from mistakes. Very few people set out to discover the thing they find. They were digging a subway in Rome and found ruins. They were lost on vacation and found the most...
Tea & Sympathy prose by JM Prescott Draw me a bath because I broke my pencil and it’s too hot to wear clothes. Hold me underwater until every room inside my soul is rinsed clean of this heat. There is blood under my fingernails that won’t...
Close fiction by John Lowry It was the day. We got up early, sat in the kitchen and had coffee. We said nothing. After, we got dressed. I didn’t pay attention to what Tara was wearing because I had to put on my black shirt,...
Interview with Taddle Creek Editor, Conan Tobias Taddle Creek is a buried stream flowing from Wychwood Park to the University of Toronto, into the Harbour. It was buried over a hundred years ago and converted into a sewer, but traces of the creek can...
After failing miserably as a rock star, Derek Richards began submitting his poetry in August 2009. So far his work has appeared in over 90 publications. When he is not changing the world one poem at a time he enjoys messing around with his ferrets, cat and puppy.
