Camp Hollyburn, 1996
On the day of their wedding, my father wore a well pressed tie dye t-shirt, with the curving outline of a moose stamped on the front. My mother wore a crisp blue dress, cut at the knee and beige boat shoes from Value Village. The whole wedding took place between the wood panels of two canoes, twelve cabins and a dock. my aunt read a poem, my godmother lead the crowd in Bill Withers, Lean on Me, and the groomsmen jumped in the lake in their suits. One guy lost his car keys in
48 Concession Street, Apartment 202
What if trees became people in the curtains? It was something Judy was thinking about as she stood in the middle of her living room and stared at the sliding door which led to the balcony, the balcony she repeatedly thought about throwing herself off of. Judy would throw herself off the balcony, if she could only be certain the drop would actually kill her. She was certain it would damage her, surely it would break most of her, but all of her? She couldn’t tell, so she watche