Creative Works

Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.

Yukon Christmas

Harris Taylor

It’s minus 40 degrees outside and the smoke from my wood stove is rising like a black poker in the ...

The Serengeti Rules

Lorri Rudland

This DVD, (2019, distributed by PBS, available at vpl.ca) tells an exceptional story and is worth taking out of the ...

Review of Will & Harper (netflix Doc)

River Glen

I watched this film about two weeks ago and intended to write a review while it was still fresh in ...

Signs of Meaning

QUIRK-E

This is a series of signs the group crafted at a weekly meeting in 2024 to express an answer to ...

Interview with Christine Waymark – 2019

Paula Stromberg

I’m scared despite my luck in growing older. About 25,000 new cases of dementia are diagnosed in Canada every year, ...

Ride with a New View

River Glen

Originally published in QUIRK-E Collections Volume 5 Today I climbed aboard a bus not intent on a destination; rather I ...

Grandma

Farren Gillaspie

The lane was an uneven gravel pathway with multiple depressions filled with frozen muddy water. The air was crisp and ...

Chasing After What Do I Deconstruct Myself?

River Glen

 Originally Published in Wrinkles Ten days to go till my partial tit amputation (breast reduction surgery). Am I having second ...

So Grief

River Glen

So, grief is love unfinished...I’ve heard this proclaimed a few times recently. I think like many quips it leaves a ...

A Flaunting of Dykes

Lorri Rudland

Many years ago, in August 1984, in anticipation of the upcoming the Gay Pride March, several friends and I tried ...