Symptoms of a Body

I am thrilled to announce that one of my favorite literary magazines, The Malahat Review, has selected a piece of my non-fiction for publication. You can find "Symptoms of a Body" in the 2022 Spring issue of this wonderful periodical. Below is a small section from my piece.

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“I flew once; I ran through a yellow canola field as tall as a cargo ship and jumped off a piercing cliff, coasted for a while with my fingers, landed on a rock and ricocheted, like a dew drop on a spider web, back into the sky. I pounced across a geographical tapestry of color and terrain, over a black train puffing gray soot, like a cigarette-smoking caterpillar, and into the sea, where I sank to the floor and sat cross-legged, inhaling through my nose and out my ears, peacefully breathing underwater.”

“Yes flew once, and breathed under water too. I was also robbed. I stayed in a hotel room made of windows, overlooking a dark highway. I ran from alligators in slow motion when they joined me in an indoor hot tub. I fled from wolves in the thick of a forest. I ate a cheeseburger without feeling shame. I was shot, stabbed, and drove a car off a cliff. I plucked out my own eyeball and felt no pain, like a bizarre party trick.”

“I wonder, what is it that stops any of this from being true?”