Feathertale regular Changming Yuan tries to figure out the Canadian psyche, eh.
Archive | June, 2013
An Important Communiqué from the Coalition Against Child Slavery on the Use of Slave Labour by the Coalition Against Child Slavery
Let us tell you about David. He works at the Coalition Against Child Slavery. His employer refers to workers like him as “interns,” but David is no fool. Working twelve-hour days for almost no pay, he knows what he really is: he is a human slave.
Gleaning Relativity
Mindy, in her deepest understanding, knows universes come in many different sizes. Some universes are as small as two turns negotiating the drive-thru at Taco Bell.
Dear Sixty-Year-Old Guy in Our First-Year College Business Class
We’re sorry your 36-year tenure at the slaughterhouse ended in an ugly fashion; however, we, as a class, believe lectures would move along faster without lengthy anecdotes consisting of little more than your petty gripes against the various slaughterhouse managers who’ve allegedly wronged you over the years.
To My New Neighbour with the Stone Lions
I can’t wait to meet you. Wow. You must a celebrity, or at least an incredibly successful pioneer; not just any old bod is important and rich enough to have a pair of stone entranceway lions outside their own home.
After
Intrigue, addiction, illicit affairs, a frog or two. Coleena Fanjoy reinterprets your favourite fairy tales.
Uphill Both Ways
None of us understood how or why but they said starting in September we’d have to walk uphill both ways to school. We didn’t like that. Not one bit. But there was little we could do. Us being kids and all.
Feathertale wins big at the National Magazine Awards
On June 7, 2013, The Feathertale Review No. 9 won gold for Best Single Issue at the National Magazine Awards in Toronto. Feathertale was the smallest magazine nominated at this year’s gala, so to win one of the evening’s most prestigious awards was an unexpected honour, something frequent contributor Cathal Kelly touched upon when he […]