The Porcupine's Quill

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Act I: Fabulous Fictions

Scene I: How God Talks in His Sleep

Scene II: Bank President’s Address to Minions on the Eve of the Release of the Annual Financial Report Showing Profits Heretofore Unseen in the World

Scene III: Cézanne’s Muse

Scene IV: The Ravening Beasts at Fairy Godfather House

Scene V: Ms Smith Is Hard Put to Explain to Her Husband How She Came to Spend the Night Unexpectedly in Philip's Nightgown

Scene VI: The Scroll of Civilization Survives the Restless Deep, Sights Through Rusted Periscope The Uninhabited Isle It May Call Home, and Navigates Into Shore on a Calm Sea

Scene VII: Son of Scroll

Scene VIII: Daughter of Son of Scroll

Act II: Peculiar Practices

Scene I: Snoop, Protégé of Snap

Scene II: I Spent This Day Toiling Over a Number of Scotswomen

Scene III: Those Lousy Pessimists Sometimes Make a Guy So Blue All He Wants to Do Is Run Amuck

Scene IV: Peculiar Practices in Alberta Possibly Related to the Oil Boom

Scene V: Narcissistic Eb and Unlucky Flo

Scene VI: Some Ideas About the Camping Experience Need Looking at Again

Scene VII: Critics Take on the Premier Showing of Tank's Documentary of the Closing Eye

Scene VIII: Sullenness in Machines in Advance of Outright Rage

Scene IX: Let Us Steel Ourselves for the Appalling Scene Certain to Develop Should We Ever Declare Our Love for McTaggert's Wife

Scene X: Comma Fucked

 

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The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.

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