Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 10 by Betsy Warland Oscar sipping morning green tea. Crow catches corner of Oscar’s eye with a sidelong glance as it sidles atop neighbour’s fence in nonchalant nervousness; flies few feet to hydrangea...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 6B by Betsy Warland 2008. Fourteen stories high in the Hilton. Looking down on the Detroit River, Windsor Ontario side. Oscar there launching Silences. A book Oscar edited. Thirty-six academics writing on. The river...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 6A by Betsy Warland Iowa. The Des Moines River. River of Oscar’s youth. One big rock in it, on which some anonymous person repainted in large, white block letters: “JESUS SAVES.” Every summer. The...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 5 by Betsy Warland A grey and drizzle Vancouver 2008 Sunday. Oscar unable to focus. A week ago. Flew her son back. To his other mother’s home. Damp and dank of sadness — Oscar closed in by it — while...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 4 by Betsy Warland Time is everything. With everything. The difference between: The First Time; The Last Time. And between? “Time will tell.” Virginia journaling about her nascent sense of writing Mrs...
Guest Writer Excerpt from Oscar of Between, Part 3 by Betsy Warland Category: Oscar’s anathema. Although others’ descriptions for her loneness change over the years – tomboy, headstrong, stubborn, independent, odd, rebellious, arrogant, different,...
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