Creative Works
Quirk-e members’ creative expression in every form – writing, painting, drawing, film, and more.
Meeting a New Challenge
It all started while I was on vacation in Puerto Vallarta. I noticed just a small sore on the heel ...
Daisy Air Rifle
When I was six, I saw an ad for a Daisy Air Rifle on the back of one of my ...
Dal and Chandra, the Warrior and the Climber
On ruined planet earth in a tiny life cube Dal is crying: If I jump I hit the hard. If ...
First Crush
When talking about my youth it can often sound like a Charles Dickens novel. As well as the worst of ...
Lucy the Cat Meets Santa at the Mall
Jane’s cat, Lucy, had been quite naughty this year so Jane planned to take her to visit Santa Claus at ...
book review: recovering spirits
Recovering Spirits Volume II. A beautifully designed chapbook compiled by Jill Mandrake. The stories explore the coincidental yet supernatural experience ...
Timeless: a 20 Minute Poem
The girl’s on track, on time, on a streetcar after schoolcopybooks squared into her elbow aswestern sunshine strobes her faceas ...
Red Boot Laces – Grise Fiord
The Tone was established on Day One at CBC Eastern Arctic when the manager gave me a tour of Iqaluit. ...
We Dreamed of Going to Haida Gwaii
I first met Sheila in Toronto. I had just returned to Canada after living in Europe when my children were ...
Max Dexall
In 1954 when I was 10, a short older man with dark wavy hair came for dinner. He brought expensive ...
