Achieving rest
byEditor’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…
home
Small and wonderful
byEditor’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,…
Country roads, take me home
byI 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…
The sound of transition
byEditor’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…
Jagged edges
byJordan’s One Direction posters covered the wall where Emily used to hang her princess canopy, but the sunset still glimmered through the windows facing…
Nashville
byThe slap-crack of skateboards hitting cement punctuates the air. The town park vibrates with laughter, conversation, dog yelps, honking horns. Overhead, dark clouds roll,…
The long way home
byWhen 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…
Well-trodden paths
byFar to the north, or indeed in any direction, strange mountains and creatures have always lurked— elves, goblins, trolls, and spiders: —we encounter them…
Imitation home
byA flavor can flood us with memories of a time and place, and we are slammed to that place in the short film, Home…
World banquet
byFor me, birthdays have always conjured up memories of food. Every year growing up, a few days before June 26, my mom would ask…