Month: October 2010
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If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody
She has been in the womb for ten months. She has stopped growing, but kicks harder every day. She will grow up to resent her mother, thinking she was held in for the extra month as punishment. She likes it when her mother sings. Tonight, she will escape and never stay anywhere for long again.…
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Glimpses
She sits in silence watching him, eyes glued to his smile, his movements, his subtle gestures. His emotions etched perfectly into his fine face. She watches. He sits; laughing, contemplating, smiling. There across from him sits the one he loves. Eyes honey brown and photo perfect.
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Mine
It has been mine for as long as I can remember. There is no time before it, and there will be no time after it. It is here to stay. It is here and it is mine, forever.
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Magic for Madness
The first therapist I ever visited was Dr. Felbaum. I was twelve. On our first session, I sat in a comfy, oversized chair but didn’t allow myself to sink too deeply into it. He asked me what was wrong, so I told him. I told him I was afraid to leave my house, afraid to…
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Couples Make Noise
One summer, strapped for cash, I applied to work through the local university. Being so late in the season, most jobs were filled, but I found work as a cleaner in the athletic building. The job was fairly unsavoury, considering how many people work out and use the facilities in the summer, but the pay…
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The Secret Life of the Canadian Twenty-Something
I definitely don’t have any Gossip Girl-esque secrets. I’m not even on the same level as the characters in Glee. And I’ve never actually seen the show I referenced in the title of this article, so I have no idea what their secrets are like.
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Do You Have A Secret?
Some families hold secrets, our friends may have secrets, and even Wilfrid Laurier students have secrets. The LSPIRG working group “Laurier Secrets” is an open community where people can anonymously share their own secrets by creatively writing them on cards and sending them in.
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If Academics Discovered Fire
Academic Caveman #1: Did you notice that when lightning hits a tree it sometimes erupts in a bright hot light? Academic Caveman #2: Yes, and the light spreads to all the other trees close by. Academic Caveman #3: And it only stops when all the trees are gone.
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The Gyre
One of those days. Not a pleasant one. She is bored of the nothingness after the completion of her (so far) magnum opus. Take a break, a breath, a holiday, they told her. Rest a little. Yes, she would like to do that, but one could not simply stop right here, right now, not after…
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In Bed
The girl yawns and rolls over to discover the boy asleep in bed beside her, forgetting she had invited him up at the end of the night after too many drinks. Sunlight streams in through the useless white curtains she has strung up over the window above her bed. The boy lets out a slight…