Achieving rest
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Brett Beasley explores what he’s…
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Small and wonderful
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2003, I speak from Three Rivers,…
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Country roads, take me home
I kick back the blankets and willingly rise at 7:00. It’s Saturday morning in early October, and Dad’s driving into town. He does this…
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The sound of transition
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2006, Kate Bowman-Johnston shares how a…
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Jagged edges
Jordan’s One Direction posters covered the wall where Emily used to hang her princess canopy, but the sunset still glimmered through the windows facing…
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Nashville
The slap-crack of skateboards hitting cement punctuates the air. The town park vibrates with laughter, conversation, dog yelps, honking horns. Overhead, dark clouds roll,…
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The long way home
When I first immigrated from England to southern Ontario, I felt as if I’d moved from a human-sized land to a land that needed…
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Well-trodden paths
Far to the north, or indeed in any direction, strange mountains and creatures have always lurked— elves, goblins, trolls, and spiders: —we encounter them…
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Imitation home
A flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
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World banquet
For me, birthdays have always conjured up memories of food. Every year growing up, a few days before June 26, my mom would ask…
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