“Other malls seem to be resisting demolition altogether, standing sentinel with their faux-brick tiling and plastic ferns, even as vendors abandon ship and their kiosks clank shut for the last time, having sold their final mutton roll or polyester nightgown.”

“Can I see myself being, like, friends with any of these people?” Would I, for example, invite any of them on a whim to spend a day in Kensington Market or to bitch about work over cocktails? Would I feel compelled to call one of them at 1 a.m. after a disappointing date? And what if the answer is no? Does that make this experiment a failure?”

Toronto Star, November 2024

“There was a poise to the velvety darkness of parking lots, the soft buzz of neon lights shaped like palm trees, as if they were also waiting at attention for the inevitable flurry of activity that punctuated those long periods of quiet.”

Hazlitt, July 2023

“We needed that job and the maintenance guy knew it, so we let it slide. We all figure out how to survive, one way or another. Before I learned how to take the money and run, I learned how to give it up.”

The Chestnut Review, October 2022

“I wanted the Sasquatch to be found so that we would at last know the truth: that this shadowy fragment wasn’t to be feared after all. Yet the lack of certainty also meant I would never have to confront the possibility that the truth was more disappointing.”

Catapult, June 2021