Category: Issue 17

Artwork by Jessica Gerardi   A Reimagining of The Green Ribbon Jenny always meets the Dressmaker in the backroom of his shop. It’s quite small—just like the rest of the store—with heaps of dresses from last season collecting dust in the corner. A spindle sits in another corner, and in the centre of the room,…

Artwork by Ava Maggioni     I had the first depressive episode of my life in the fifth grade, beginning promptly as November’s grey rolled in. It was a sort of dissatisfaction I’d never experienced before, the days bleeding together and fuzzing out until they felt like nothing. I fuzzed out into nothing. I remember…

Artwork by Danni Nguyen   Think of last summer—between the daily drone of mindless work, courses, and life events, something was lurking in the air. Something that Toronto would have never experienced under normal conditions: an omen of our future summers. It coated our streets with a grey fog that thickened the air. Our sun…

Artwork by Aarushi Gupta   There are eyes in my memory. In my muscles, in the corners of rooms where no one sits. Even air  enters me uninvited. The world  presses its thumbprint into my wax, and I  melt into the shape they’ve named woman.   Someone speaks her name as if they know it,…