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Angelus

by Shiela Jane Olley

They called him Angelus because he was pulled from the rubble of the Nuevo León building at the exact moment that the Angelus bell rang out for the first time since the earthquake four days earlier.

The city was in ruins, thousands dead and even more hurt. Orphaned children, orphaned parents, orphaned pets. Yet it was important for the church bell to be heard again, even as the search for survivors, and bodies, went on.

In the midst of choking dust, shattered bones and blood and wails of grief, a fireman sifting through the debris of […]

Angelus2026-08-10T11:54:35-05:00

Return to Sender

by Gord Deyo

The letter was folded into quarters, wrapped in a strip of wax paper, and tucked between two blocks of ice at the bottom of the crate like it had been hidden by someone who understood cold.

Marta almost didn’t see it. She was moving fast. It was nearly eleven, her hands were numb, and the fish smell had long since moved past her nose and into the back of her skull where it lived now, permanent as a squatter. She stacked the empty crates against the back wall of the stall, the way she did every […]

Return to Sender2026-06-19T06:40:42-05:00
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