<p>Fiction. Winner of a Northern Lit Award. Winner of the 38th Annual 3?Day Novel Writing Contest. CHALK is a tender story about love and loss, following a broken-hearted thirty?something cubicle worker, free-falling from every ledge of his life. Post?break-up and blue, he feels like nothing matters, that he has become invisible, like a chalk outline on the floor, empty inside. Living in a one?bedroom apartment with beige?coloured walls and a TV with a snowy screen, his dead?end days are capped off with solo evenings of drinking and bad TV. His phone rings, but he rarely answers. Every few days he picks up his messages after he tires of watching the red blinking light on the answering machine. It is one of these messages that eventually calls him home to mourn a family tragedy. Certain that he will die if he gets on a flight, he somehow--with the aid of drugs and a couple of panic attacks--survives the trip home. He decides to return by bus, rental car, or both. During his travels he meets L, a mysterious third gender runaway and they set each other off on an unintentional quest for meaning. He runs into trouble with the cops, angry gangs of roving youth, scammers and eventually falls even further down, until finally coming to realize that all roads lead back to where he started--in the flowers drawn by two little girls in coloured chalk on the sidewalk. CHALK is a story about You.</p>

Chalk

Diaczuk, Doug

Literature & Fiction

Anvil Press

<p>Just Like a Real Person is a story about broken cars and broken people. A story of intoxication, sobriety, and potent memories of a woman in a yellow sundress. But, it's also a story about love that asks what it means to finally feel, after years of feeling nothing but numb.The story begins with a crash, and throughout the story, we bear witness to many more - both literal and metaphorical - as cars wrap around lamp posts and jump medians, and as the humans inside them are unknotted from smouldering metal and the entanglements of their choices."He" is a nameless, indiscriminate addict. A fuck-up without a driver's license, who has caused forty-two car crashes in eight years, and makes his living by picking through the shattered belongings and lives he leaves behind. "She" is Lola, and Lola is unsure where she's going, just that it's far from there.Disorienting as an acid trip, the story winds through the aftermath, watching as he collides with recovery, women, and his own imperfect recollections while searching for the elusive girl in the yellow sundress.</p>

Just Like a Real Person

Anvil Pr

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Chalk

Just Like a Real Person