Creative Works
Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.
Indigenous Women Sterilized in Canada
In the early 1960s – 1970s across Canada, over 1000 Indigenous Women were sterilized in a procedure that took away ...
My New Moccasins
“Here they are Stevie. Grandmère made them for you.” I looked at the light brown leather moccasins, at the rawhide ...
Eve or Apple?
Farren Gillaspie “Take a bite,” she said. “Just a taste, there are so many. Look some have fallen on the ...
Lonely
Only the Lonely Know the Way I Feel, Roy Orbison song 1961 It is the mid 1960s in rural Manitoba. ...
My First Mask
When I entered the classroom I was confronted by a big man holding his hand as blood ran down his ...
Mistaken Identity
This memoir is set in Vancouver in the 1980s. One night I was supposed to be sleeping over at Judy ...
Tripping to the Lake
Little boy She’s from the street Before you start You’re already beat See the way she walks Hear the way ...
Adopted Grammas
I am not a parent but I am a grandparent. I never thought I would be called Gramma Bridget until ...
Life Insurance
Quiet, slow, gentle morningsounds of rain on the windowthe ring of the phone bursts into the tranquility —insurance!resurgence of fearsof ...
