Creative Works
Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.
The Hunt on the Tundra
Dana wants a challenge and signs up to cook for the infuriating wildlife guide, Jimmy, at a remote hunting camp ...
Those Were the Lesbians
It was the early 1970s in Kitsilano, hippies everywhere. The mantra was: “Sex, Drugs and Rock’n Roll.” One afternoon Anne ...
Queersome Ramblings of an Old Woman Out on a Limb
Here are some of my little ideas and feelings that boomerang around in my head. Maybe some will resonate and ...
My Refuge
After a close call with Penny Precise, the name of my beautifuI power cabinet saw, I began to accept that ...
Indigenous Women Sterilized in Canada: update
Canadian Senator Yvonne Boyer estimates that more than 12,000 Indigenous women in Canada, since the 1970’s, have been coerced or ...
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 ...
