Monthly Archives: October 2010

Digested!

By jso | Published: 20 October 2010

In the mail today a copy of Read­ers Digest arrived contain­ing a cheque and a story of mine published ten years ago and collected in 2007 in an anthol­ogy called Body Break­down. The orig­i­nal story appeared on www​.open​let​ters​.net, the epis­to­lary venture under­taken by Paul Tough after his tenure as editor of Satur­day Night, the general inter­est magazine […]

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The Coincidence Problem

By jso | Published: 10 October 2010

I was walk­ing north down Commer­cial Drive when I began to think about a friend I hadn’t seen for some months. I crossed Grand­view High­way as the Skytrain passed over­head, and there was the friend I had been think­ing about stand­ing at the corner with his wife, and he was look­ing at me in some […]

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