Issue 4, Summer 2021 Nonfiction
The 2021 Prize Winner, selected by Marco Wilkinson:
Here, Gone, Again | Sarah Lass
It is late May in a quiet corner of New England. I sit on a hill that tumbles towards a pond in two definitive slopes: the first precipitous drop from the quiet street above empties into an inviting grassy expanse before dropping off again towards the water. Two edges, two drops, separated by the fleeting respite of horizontality. Green flesh whispers softly to green flesh. Every so often, the water shivers.
Fences for Neighbours | Rebecca Davey
*Pseudonyms are used.
“We’ll do it quick,” I say. “So quick, they won’t even know it happened.”
I’m trying to convince my husband and father-in-law to knock down our decrepit old plaster kitchen wall. The goal is to beautify the wall as well as put up new layers of soundproofing—all in the space of a weekend while my neighbours are away. My husband acquiesces and picks up the sledgehammer. Boom.
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