Month: September 2013

The doorbell chimed, and Ghurge Jones looked up from his paper. “That’s odd,” he thought, “I don’t have a doorbell.” He got up with difficulty from his easy chair, and went to his door. “Huh,” he noticing the peep-hole he’d never had before. “I don’t have a peephole.” Looking through the peep-hole, he saw a … Read more

Cualitro was an aspiring painter who lived just above a storefront along Bloor Street, in the Toronto neighbourhood known as The Annex. “My main problem,” he would tell friends as they sipped cup after cup of the cheap, burnt coffee from Future Bakery, “is a lack of motivation.” His darkly-dressed friends would nod in varying … Read more

The new King had requested that the buffet table at his coronation party must be the most auspicious feast ever prepared for a coronation, specifically stating it must also be ‘a feast for the eyes’. The buffet table was decorated with beautiful linen, and stacks of the finest china and silverware on the far end, … Read more