"This book is both a collection of short stories and an archival document of the thirteen years I have published my zine Ghost Pine (originally Otaku), where these stories first appeared."--p. [7]
Content Note
Sin city -- Noah and snow -- Another day at the office -- Who's the ghost? -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Two men -- Meridian Place -- A miner's life is like a pilot's -- Punk rock is our lives -- Record review -- Would code names be assigned? -- Mixtape review -- Book review -- Winnipeg -- On truancy -- Jet fuel -- Rocko -- Port authority -- Django's room -- Lebanon -- "Dreamed a dream by the old canal" -- Harvest -- Fascists -- Drag it to dinner -- Movies and bikes -- Pointe St. Charles -- The secret saints of Montreal -- "Cocksucker" -- Untitled dialogue between me and me at ages 16-24 -- The social justice club: part one -- The social justice club: part two: recruits -- The first meeting of the social justice club -- The social justice club: part three -- Record review -- No time -- offices -- Nepean -- Lucky Ron at Chateau Lafayette -- Riding the 95 -- Team of service representatives -- The annual great glebe garage sale report, 1998 -- O-town prayer -- Canadian thanksgiving -- Spring -- Killing time -- Ghosts, pt. 2 -- Family -- This story is called 'my life' -- Forty-eight hours -- Red -- Pole to pole -- Shademaster locust -- Wisdoom teeth -- The punch line -- Lincoln fields -- Movie review (with Simon): x2 -- The ballad of Stu Rhubarb -- Crud#1 -- Hashish in Calgary -- On the rooftops of San Francisco -- This never happened -- Scenes from a trailer -- Midnight reviews -- Millennium -- Cigarettes -- From bones -- Magpies - Interview by Ciara Xyerra, February 2007 .