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Ursula Pflug is author of the novel Green Music (Tesseract Books, 2002). She has short stories in or forthcoming in Nemonymous Seven: Zencore, edited by DF Lewis; Bandersnatch, edited by Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay; Bamboo Ridge # 91; and Mapping the Beast: The Best of Leviathan and Album Zutique, edited by Jeff VanderMeer. She is also a playwright and arts journalist. Recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Works In Progress Award in 2005 to complete a new novel, Thin Wednesday, Pflug was short-listed for the K. M. Hunter Award the following year. She received a Canada Council grant in the current year for a novel-length flash fiction project, Motion Sickness. Her long awaited story collection After the Fires is forthcoming from Tightrope Books in 2008.


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16 Feb 2026

Water is life here, and it's evident in that if you stray too far off the beaten path and away from water, you will get lost and you’ll be lucky if anyone sees you again before sundown. My village is settled neatly between two gentle rolling mesas and along a thin river in a sparsely populated community lovingly called ‘the valley’.
In the beginning, the ocean was lonely / and so she created a fifteen-year-old girl / (or was it the other way around?)
It’s me not you, and the / Hole in the sky still weeps sticky tears.
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