Montreal Serai

  1956  was the year that marked  a sea change in my life. I had to leave a private grade  Read more…

  A fictional rendition of the story of King Dasharatha from the Ramayana   Dasharatha could hear the mynas and  Read more…

    The new student came to consult with his advisor in order to establish his curriculum. The professor tried  Read more…

  I have a recurrent dream in which I am flying over a large body of turquoise water. The air  Read more…

  Welcome to the Hotel Chanson de Geste, for once again it is pillow mint in Paris time, where the  Read more…

If you observe a mappemonde carefully you will notice a large body of  blue water surrounded  by land on all  Read more…

My sister, all of four years older than me, kindly informed me very early on that Santa Claus didn’t exist,  Read more…

The text below is from a collection in progress of yet unpublished short stories, entitled “Fragments”. Les rayons du soleil  Read more…

  I was a teenager the last time I saw Fatma. I had just returned home for my summer vacation  Read more…

            In the middle of the 9 a.m. newscast I have to leave for work, which is a shame. They’ve  Read more…

  The glare from the neon lights bores through my eyelids making them flutter. I fight  back and force them  Read more…

  With nails that curved over toes. Her limbs, limp, her eyes vacant. She took her acoustic guitar to music  Read more…

[Short listed by the CBC-Quebec Writers Federation Literary Competition and first published in In Other Words. New English Writing from  Read more...

Communist Hot Dogs, In Pursuit of Petula, and A Kiss from Marlene Dietrich   The fortieth anniversary of the opening  Read more…

CASEMENTS (after Charles Baudelaire)   Through this doubled pane, the city spreads before me like a jeweled necklace.  Strings of  Read more…

We left San Juan Del Sur early this morning, heading for Rivas. The bus waited on the side of the  Read more…

It was the craziest thing. I was just going home from rehearsal, and I was so caught up that I  Read more…