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Author: Julian Legere

Memoir

This Queer Body

12 Mar 2022
Fair warning for this one: I talk about my body a lot. If you know me and would feel weird seeing me do let’s say a fairly explicit sex scene…
Fiction

The Tide

12 Feb 2022
Are there fights we will never stop having? Is part of making a life with someone learning how to live with the rough edges that will never stop scratching at…
Ramblings and Shenanigans

Truth is a cleansing fire

26 Jan 2022
I'm not entirely sure what this is, but I think it's one of my favourite things I've ever written. Truth craves the air, like electricity craves the earth. It will…
Fiction

Snowed In

22 Dec 2021
We've been having a hell of a snow-dump the last two days here in Prince George, and I couldn't resist the spooky potential of being trapped by the elements. I…
Fiction

Promises

18 Dec 2021
CW: reference to opioid OD Erin struggled with the zipper on her jacket. It refused to to zip farther than the first inch. She tugged and pulled and swore. “Christ.…
Fiction

Tío Wilson

17 Dec 2021
CW: Fatal domestic violence, dead body I sat down to write this morning knowing it had been a while. 5 or 6 days, I thought. But the document I keep…
Fiction

Lost

7 Dec 2021
Department stores are creepy. There's a Hudson's Bay near my house, and if I'm going to or from the stores past it, it's way faster to walk through than around.…
Fiction

“A not horny elevator”

3 Dec 20213 Dec 2021
You know when you step into the elevator of your building and run into the older guy your husband might be having an affair with who might also be a…
Fiction

A Death in the Building

2 Dec 202118 Dec 2021
Usually, I do the bulk of my writing in the morning. Early, quiet morning especially. But this is some nighttime writing. Maybe I'll keep track and see if there's any…
Fiction

Believer

1 Dec 202118 Dec 2021
So far, everything I've posted related to Haunted Apartment (the most boring working title in history, I know) has been fully improvised when I sit down to write. Since the…

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