Musings From the Fringe
Chafic LaRochelle, Brandon Smith, Alexander Tkachuk, Carly., zach dewittBite-sized satire, fiction, and essays for semi-literate weirdos.
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The Hunting Party
Author’s note: Everything in this account has been painstakingly researched and thoroughly verified for historical accuracy. No sources have been included.
Ary Scheffer, The Retreat of Napoleon’s Army from Russia in 1812 (1826).
If it was...
A Recurring Erotic Dream
I have this recurring erotic dream. It’s late at night, and I’m in a truck stop off some deserted highway. It’s summer. I know it’s summer because the air is gummy and close.
I’m in the bathroom when in walks this guy—a trucker, judging by...
On the Uses of Death & Dying
Author’s Note: On the Uses of Death & Dying is a novella in progress. The complete work will be serialized here and then adapted into a physical edition defiled by my own illustrations.
This is chapter the twenty-first.
Chapter the twenti...
A Man, Without
Author’s Note: This piece was written in 2017, first published in The Fiddlehead in 2021, and included in Best Canadian Essays 2023. It appears here with light revisions.
But that’s the way of the world.
― Homer’s Odyssey (Book XIX, line...
Women of Greek Myth & Their Poetic Afterlives
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Writer, jester, occasional rescuer of lost hikers. Published in McSweeney’s, Points in Case, The Fiddlehead, The First Line, Best Canadian Essays, and more. Failing upwards since 1990-something.
Author of The Gospel According to Frank—a queer southern gothic satire of Christian nationalism in America 🥩📺🦷
Montréal based writer. Published in Vallum, Hobart and The First Line Journal. Just as confused as everyone else on this blue marble hurtling through space.
Poetry and essays. Don’t be alarmed, I’m unraveling on purpose. Sarcasm is my love language. Follow me into the sunset.
earnest, perhaps too much so. essays, forlorn fiction, and "under erasure: a Derrida podcast".
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