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THE NOSE by Nikolai Gogol
The Nose By Nikolai Gogol I On March 25th there took place, in Petersburg, an extraordinarily strange occurrence. The barber Ivan Yakovlevich, who lives on Voznesensky Avenue (his family name has been lost and even on his signboard, where a gentleman is depicted with a lathered cheek and the inscription “Also bloodletting,” there is nothing […]
Darkwind
October 9, 2008
I remember the wind on that first night, rattling the shutters, shifting the coarse-dusted snow. I slept huddled against my brother, struggling to be warm, wishing there was a fire in the hearth, and some heat within that house’s walls, and cursing my uncle for a fool or a lunatic. It was three-fourths into a […]
Ashes & Light
September 25, 2008
This is the story as the doctor presented it: Marius Ambustus, the merchant and trader, was forty when his first and only son, Lucinius, was born. The midwife who attended the birth possessed some skill at divining, and so the merchant asked her to tell him what she could about the child. She held the […]
Locksmith and Primrose
September 10, 2008
He had the gift of stealth, which is more than simple quiet movement. He walked downwind from shadow, passing along streets and into houses. His tools let him silently into stranger's hallways, and he crept in and out of gates and doors, past sleeping dogs, indifferent cats, unwary children in their beds. In office buildings, he peeped in cupboards and desks. In stores, he wandered among the aisles, touching nothing. Finally, hours later, he returned home like a chameleon in flux, still unnoticed by anyone.
The Habit-Catcher
September 5, 2008
Sadek’s face was angular and changeable, distinctive, yet oddly difficult to pin down. When dealing with his customers he often kept his expression bland, as bland as the door to his company’s offices, as bland as his business cards, as bland as things needed to be to mask the extraordinary services he provided. The sign […]
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
March 5, 2011
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