It’s your fourth (or fifth) February of your undergraduate degree. The days get longer and the snow turns to streams disappearing down College Hill and, like every February, you feel winter subsiding. But 2012 is different. You’re going to graduate soon and this summer doesn’t mean a four-month hiatus from essays and assignments while you [...]
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Her small frame sits on the side of the hospital bed and her feet can’t touch the floor. Slowly, she stands up and makes her way, just two steps, to a chair next to her bed. Breathing hard, she collapses in the chair. Her head turns away and she coughs, loud and hollow, into the [...]
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The van raced down the paved road on its way to Accra, the capital of Ghana. Passengers squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder. Baskets of tomatoes, mounds of colourful cloth and old car parts occupied the floor. Augustina Akafo sat in the back seat, her eyes staring blankly out the window; she was thinking about leaving her husband. Her [...]
Continue reading …I stared at the parking meter, drunk. My fists were broken and I wavered slightly before punching it again. And again. And again. The bones in my hands splintered as I hit the parking meter. The tiny needle flickered slightly each time I struck it as my friends watched on, not sure what to do. [...]
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It seemed harmless at first. A piece of loose-leaf, folded four times over, slid under the door at 8:15 p.m. It went unnoticed until Samuel Cormier-Farley went to the bathroom. The top of the paper had his name and the note was addressed from a secret admirer who wished to meet him. This began two [...]
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Almost 15 years after her death, people still mourn Princess Diana. On the streets of London you can buy plates and cups with her face on it, but then, she was famous—more than famous even. She was an icon. So it makes sense that she is still mourned. But what about the ordinary? The everyday [...]
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a. You get rejected after asking someone out while they’re preoccupied b. You reject someone by lying to them because you’re preoccupied c. You’re too preoccupied to realize you’re alone I do a lot of schoolwork at Starbucks. You probably wouldn’t recognize me with my head buried in my laptop. Once last semester, while working [...]
Continue reading …The smell of my mother’s food always made me fly into the room. That day, it was a mixture of sweet tomatoes, oregano, yeast and rosemary. The oven was on and it made the room warm and stuffy. My mamá is blessed with the gift of cooking anything at any place and time. She makes [...]
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She’s petite and round, and likes to dress in pink. She shares my bed with lovers, and carries me through times of drought. She tastes like sugar, yet stirs me deep inside. It’s been eight years since we met, and I couldn’t live without her – my pill. You would think by 2012, it would [...]
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As she celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, Her Majesty shows there’s more to the royal revival than stiff upper lips and silly hats I’ve confessed a lot in this column: my inclination toward introversion, my forbearance for Justin Marshall, my woes for the world’s end, my nostalgia for notebooks and a few other things you probably [...]
Continue reading …The AQ’s Liam McGuire talks about bipolar disorder and why it’s important to succumb to the help that surrounds you I felt miserable for no particular reason. I wandered around uptown Fredericton with tears in my eyes, frustrated with that particular summer day last June. My heart was beating at an unnerving rate as I [...]
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While on a search for information about an influential woman, third-year student Tony Peter-Paul reconnects with his roots Once the VLT machine took all of elder Maggie Paul’s tokens, she got up from her seat and set out to the bingo hall. “Come with me,” Maggie said. “I can tell you what I know about [...]
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