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A couple reconnecting in front of the ocean
Following his senses
Some memories never fade
A woman holding a bunch of red heart-shaped balloons
The red balloon: a thought on freedom
The string that hold us back
Between neon darkness and feathered light, love mutates into monsters and angels as the self walks through shifting moons, grief, and fragile hop
Neon demons, feathered hope
Love, metamorphosis, and the mind’s struggle to survive itself
A view from the South Side of Wreck Beach © Photo by John Macanas
Wreck Beach: a winter solitude
Late winter treks on a summer nude beach turned solitude fort
Suspended between light and shadow, she holds the weight of words unspoken: where friendship, longing, and restraint quietly meet
The space between us
On friendship, boundaries, and everything unsaid
The last day of light hums softly against the water, photographed by Ray Bilcliff
The boy and his dear lover
A collection of poems about love, divinity, and sacred union
Miguel de Cervantes statue by sculptor Óscar Alvariño in Toledo, Spain
I killed him
It is the morning, despite itself. Here I am, spite and all
An old attic filled with a treasure chest of historical photographs and handwritten letters
First love and first heartbreak
A daughter, a journal, and the secrets time forgot
Woman in a dress lying beneath the water’s surface
Exorcising your ghost
A poem about obsession, memory, and learning how to let the dead sink
In a city of "hello and bye" friends, truest conversations happen at sunset between the swing set and the whispering willows © Photo by John Macanas
Sunset in Vancouver’s Falaise Park
A short story of a solitary meditative park stroll
A close-up of a newly married couple’s clasped hands, representing the fragile beginning of a lifelong partnership
Love in a fortress
What hornbills can teach us about devotion, sacrifice, and showing up
A silhouette suspended between memory and momentum: Aldonza in the space where two worlds meet
Ahmed's painting
The art of waiting for the giant
A deserted indoor hallway in a ruined, deteriorating house
The thirteenth floor
A not-so-beatific NYC suicide beat
A woman with striking blue eyes illuminated by soft blue string lights
Wings, wounds, and other inventions of the self
A poetic journey through desire, distortion, survival, and rebirth
Hands extended in trust, reflecting the vulnerability of wanting to be part of the world again
Reaching for a connection
Learning that needing love doesn’t make you weak—it makes you alive
A woman framed by roses, mirroring the tender illusions shaped by childhood stories and telenovelas
The evolution of my perception of love
I think love grows as I do
A woman writing in her diary, representing the quiet rebellion of self-expression
Nice girls don’t write diaries
A manifesto of a self-aware woman who dares to feel, think, and be too much
Hand in hand, they move forward — a quiet moment of safety and belonging beneath the trees
Before
Memory loops in a time of war
A black raven perched on a tree branch
The raven’s feast: a song of ashes and wings
A surreal meditation on human folly, avian vengeance, and the cyclical dance of fire, flesh, and rebirth
An impressionistic painting capturing the quiet intensity of thought, as a writer balances memory, rhythm, and silence at the edge of expression
Echoes around a caged meaning
On writing, tools, and the architecture of authenticity
A woman stares out as it rains, reflecting the constant pain that lingers within at the memories of her whom she lost
The colour of her absence was blue
A story about grief and post-traumatic stress disorder
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, ink and watercolor, by José Jiménez Aranda
The language under the language
What words remember when we cannot
One moment of distraction, and the world teeters on the edge
Longing for you
How close can two people be?
A piece of ginger on a cutting board with some aromatics, representing the importance of the fresh ingredients that add depth and complexity to dishes
The price of spice
How modern seeds threaten the flavours and futures of our farms
Under the weight of bodies, tanks, and one final lock, the bridge gives way—Trer’s justice made real
Collapse
A story of weight and reckoning
Under the night sky, a person gazes at shooting stars and meteors
Fireflies and divine stars
Poems of honesty, dissonance, and a restless heart
Historic Hawkins-Agnew House © Photo by John Macanas
Pondering on the Drive
A poem on the history of urban living through the lens of Vancouver’s Commercial Drive
A woman looking at her reflection, representing the curiosity about one's appearance that always exists
Reflections: a story for little eyes
From mirrors to photos—a grandma’s whisper through time
Sometimes, the most extraordinary discoveries are hiding just beneath the surface
Unearthing
He meant to be history, but history had other plans
Gary Lewis blends style and and ambition in front of his Mercedes Benz
“There is only forward”: an interview with Gary Lewis
On resilience, reinvention and the relentless pursuit of purpose
A once-thriving city now burns under a blood-red moon, its ruins swallowed by fire and falling stars—a silent witness to the end written in ash and sky
Leviathan dreams in uranium
Who dare stand against the fissionable glitch of an eclipsed fuse???
Under the Paris sky, she realized that some loves aren’t fleeting — they’re meant to stay
The last encounter
Learn to accept your fate
Lost in imagined journeys, where music and dreams become a window to distant places
Invisible malady
How turning an invisible struggle into creative purpose
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