![Burial](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/burial-470x140.jpg)
On a sun drenched Boston day my parents died in a car crash. A driver hopped up on crack and alcohol, was texting and driving,…
![First Date](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The bar is dim and smells of fried food. Neon lights glow red, green and blue on the walls. Incandescent lamps burn dull yellow on…
![What Debussy Wrote for the Guitar](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/guitar-470x140.jpg)
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/43782479″ params=”auto_play=true&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Peyton recognized it the first time he heard Tito Salinas play the pieces. When the performance ended, he…
![Unfinished Swansong](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/nudemaja-470x140.jpg)
Undraped feminine figure; that is, even if infatuated with brevity, David still insists on putting it in three other words: the female nude. Yes, the…
![Feigning Mirth](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
There is something about these big towns, they allure you, promise you something beautiful and make you chase these hopes and dreams feverishly and then,…
![Last Working Day](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Murthy was a second division clerk in one of the government offices; knowing which one makes no difference because most of them are alike in…
![The Prosecutor's Daughter](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/prosecutor-470x140.jpg)
Salim Bouhadi, who used to be the police chief in Tiznit until he left in disgrace, hurried up the dirt road away from the bluffs….
![Papa](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Papa-470x140.jpg)
Oh Sinnerman, where you gonna run to? Sinnerman, where you gonna run to? Where you gonna run to? All along dem day Nina Simone –…
![Daisy's Dilemma](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/daisydilemma-470x140.jpg)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Guild of Contemporary Art cordially invites you to meet the artists Cheryl Dobrin Lena Herrschaft Daisy March Saturday, June 10 – 5 to…
![Trade-Off](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/tradeoff-470x140.jpg)
“You have to stop being such a doormat,” I tell Samaya Di[1], wiping the display table we used for a quick afternoon snack and throwing…
![Impressions](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Miles pressed the up button and brushed a fuzz from his suit coat. Executives and their associates flowed through the monotone, white-collar hum of business,…
![Memories](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/memories-470x140.jpg)
The memory was painful. Vivid, so perfectly forged that merely to unsheathe it meant pain. Little things could draw it out. The smell of wet lumber, freshly cut. Maybe a combination of words or a strange pattern of falling leaves. Try as one might, it was an experience that could not be contained. Like water falling, it would find a path through, no matter how hard you worked to stop it. This time it was a name.
![The Echo of Titus](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/titus-470x140.jpg)
It was New Year’s Day at eight in the morning when I looked out the window, hung over and blurry-eyed, to see my neighbour, Ivy…
![Mansfield Park](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mansfield-470x140.jpg)
Homing “So, you like it?” Navin asked Puja as they got into the car. “Mansfield Park…” Puja tossed the name into the air. “It is…
![Uncle Bernie's House](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bernieshouse-470x140.jpg)
I stepped into the living room of my Uncle Bernie’s modest bungalow near Islington and Bloor. The banana yellow walls of the quaint room gave…