“The sun has risen but gives off no warmth.” by Julia at the desk
Tuesday July 24, 2018 11:24pm 5 minutes Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee On days like these I rise heavy, rub the sleep heavy from my eyes heavy, and nod off on the hot bus. I carry the heavy...
View Article“after every sick joke” by Julia at The Coffee Studio
Monday September 17, 2018 2:35pm 5 minutes July, ’77 Jill Mandrake In the night the sticky hot wakes you up and the ac robot beside you becomes a sleep villain. The edge of noise I can teeter on has...
View Article“Hard as it may be to believe” by Sasha on her bed
Tuesday October 2, 2018 8:46pm 5 minutes Beneath Our Feet Redfern Jon Barrett Frida sings me a lullaby and I toss and turn and hope that someone – anyone – might save me from myself. It doesn’t have to...
View Article“The only time this does not happen” by Julia at Amanda’s
Thursday December 27, 2018 1:26am 5 minutes The Undiscovered Self C.G. Jung It is dark out still morning still raining You’ll have to leave soon I could remain here I hate leaving the bed before you...
View Article“I kissed the person next to me” by Julia at G and C’s
Friday December 28, 2018 11:49pm 5 minutes Contemplation Franz Kafka – I kissed the person next to me and he fell asleep with the tip of my nose in his mouth The first time it was funny The second time...
View Article“So the Search was begun” by Julia at Pearson Airport
Monday December 31, 2018 8:08am 5 minutes The Tao Of Pooh Benjamin Hoff In the middle of the night I heard a whisper in the sound of my own voice coming from inside my head. It was me, or I believed it...
View Article“he fell like the rain,” by Julia at the Rivendell Cottage
Friday January 18, 2019 11:22pm 5 minutes In The Beautiful Rain Tony Hoagland Her eyelids sank, heavy with dust collected in the creases So many damn intricate feelings Sleep stretched out like a cat...
View Article“Speaking of hosting!” By Julia on her couch
Friday February 8, 2019 8:47pm 5 minutes from a Wordplay call out In the middle of the night it starts to rain. We can hear it pitter patter on the rooftop. You had asked for that. For more rain. To...
View Article“because they don’t realize” by Julia at W and B’s table
Saturday April 20, 2019 8:57pm 5 minutes Real Roger Harold Ober They’ll come home Late Shuffle the key in the door and shush the boots crashing into each other Shhh shhh Go to sleep boots They’ll...
View Article“treats cognitive complaints” by Julia at her table/couch
Wednesday May 22, 2019 5:33pm 5 minutes From a med school whiteboard they always got the prescription pad ready tell them you aren’t feeling like you and they write something that will make you feel...
View Article“there are still shoelaces to be tied” by Julia at her desk
Sunday April 8, 2018 11:15pm 5 minutes Ten Seconds for Each Year Fernando Raguero Wait till your eyes run out of juice try typing that letter to your friend see how many times you nod off in the middle...
View Article“stinking up the bedsheets” by Julia at her desk
Monday April 9, 2018 9:15pm 5 minutes Lonely Z. Da Costa I noticed crumbs in the bed yesterday morning they belong to both of our feet both of our pajama pants I don’t know I don’t hate it But this...
View Article“Manifest plainness” by Julia in her bed
Sunday, May 13, 2018 6:19am 5 minutes From a quote on by Lao Tzu The colour is right Light pink, baby blue, hazy orange The wake up is long pushing the eyelashes open slowly almost drifting off and...
View Article“Jesus do I have to even get out of bed” by Julia at her desk
Monday June 4, 2018 9:26pm 5 minutes From an interview by Devin Friedman Do I have to leave this? I’ve built a warm thing to lay in. My head is heavy. My eyes blink slowly. What is it about grey...
View Article“I can’t handle this” by Julia in Baden
Thursday July 25, 2019 11:29pm 5 minutes What Every Body Is Saying Joe Navarrro It’s the dreams, Bev, I’m telling you. I get paralyzed in my sleep cause of what I’m doing in my dream and then when I...
View Article“Bye” by Sasha on the basement at Bowore
Monday, December 21, 2015 10:41pm 5 minutes Overheard on Gerrard St. R. never tells me she’s a surgeon. I find out from a process of elimination. After spending a third night in her bed, no sex, just...
View Article“A hundred tourists are caught” by Julia on Jess and Rick’s couch
Friday, January 1, 2016 12:35am 5 minutes Coda, Etcetera Amber Tamblyn I am mad because I told myself that tonight I would sleep and even if I didn’t mean it, at least I would try. I am no where close...
View Article“Are you sure about that?” by Sasha on the 16
Wednesday February 3, 2016 5:15pm 5 minutes Right Hand Man Stacey Kaser I sleep with a book under my pillow. It started when I was five and my parents were fighting and the dissonance of that lullaby...
View Article“Get just the right pick-me-up” by Julia at her dining table
Tuesday March 15, 2016 12:00am 5 minutes pulpliterature.com You go to sleep early because you’ve been up since 6:27am and you say that the mountains have made you tired again. I can hear you breathing...
View Article“Let’s roll, babycakes” by Julia at her dining table
Thursday April 14, 2016 11:52pm 5 minutes overheard on Arbutus I want you to beg me to stay when I tell you I’ll be sleeping at my mother’s place tonight. I want you to get on your knees and apologize...
View Article“not released until all” by Julia at Moksha Yoga Vancouver
Sunday June 5, 2016 at Moksha Yoga Vancouver 8:47pm 5 minutes from the online grading centre Mary-Beth had big dark circles under her eyes from being up for the last 72 hours without so much as a nap....
View Article“keep coming back” by Julia at Starbucks
Tuesday June 28, 2016 at Starbucks 7:31am 5 minutes buddiesinbadtimes.com I keep having the same dream–that I’m lying in my bed with my eyes closed, asleep, and in my mind’s eye I see fuchsia orbs...
View Article“Highway 2” by Julia at her dining table
Saturday July 2, 2016 10:03pm 5 minutes NOW Magazine According to the late night clock on the wall ticking Go To Bed we realized we hadn’t slept since the Rainstorm because you couldn’t fall asleep in...
View Article“an unexpected family thing” by Julia on her bed
Monday, July 25, 2016 8:13am 5 minutes From a text Annie calls me from the other room to see if I’m awake. I am. But I ignore the ring. Letting it finish its tune before I toss in bed some more to...
View Article“I don’t even have kids” By Julia on her couch
Thursday August 11, 2016 10:10pm 5 minutes a facebook post It’s taken a lot of will power to keep my eyes open and push through. Some days last longer than others. Some days exist only to remind me of...
View Article“whenever I decide to finally” by Julia at her dining table
Sunday October 16, 2016 10:54pm 5 minutes from A Pinterest board If it’s not the third time you’ve come to collect my mushing bones from the living room and scoop me back to bed with you, it’s the...
View Article“the hands upraised” by Sasha at her desk
Friday November 25, 2016 11:54am 5 minutes The back of a Buddha greeting card I couldn’t sleep again last night. I don’t usually have this problem, toes touching the warmth of your calf, stretching...
View Article“can’t think of anything to add.” by Julia on her couch
Monday November 28, 2016 9:45pm 5 minutes From a feedback form I wish I didn’t fall asleep when I read Wish I didn’t love chocolate Wish I didn’t need to spend a long time in the bathroom with the...
View Article“without a lot of fragmentation” by Julia on Bec’s chair
Thursday December 29, 2016 12:39am 5 minutes Misery Stephen King I haven’t slept in a week. I asked my wrists if they wouldn’t mind staying quiet tonight for a change so I could heal. They remained...
View Article“improve life for their families.” By Sasha at her desk
Wednesday January 4, 2017 2:10pm 5 minutes From a Kiva.org card Kevin starts blowing glass in his sleep. Tom isn’t sure whether he should chain him to the bed or let him, which is a greater risk. At...
View Article“can definitely travel” by Sasha at her desk
Thursday January 12, 2016 1:37pm 5 minutes From an email My mother braids my hair before bed, because it’s long now and I toss and turn so violently that I wake, morning after morning, with a birds...
View Article“helps clear the air of many toxins” by Julia on the other chair
Sunday March 26, 2017 8:00pm 5 minutes from alive magazine Silas comes home after a fight and 3 long nights of sleeping on the floor of his best friend’s living room. there was no couch after Trevor’s...
View Article“I want you to sleep beside me” by Sasha in her bed
Friday April 21, 2017 10:42pm 5 minutes Said by Q I want you to sleep beside me so that I can travel your dreamscapes your garden paths roses and camellias charting the ups and downs of the river...
View Article“The only thing we lack” by Julia in her bed
Sunday May 28, 2017 11:13pm 5 minutes from a program from the Cultch you are holding me as I write this breath on my shoulder, butterfly, same thing I know I’ll meet my crows tomorrow morning I know...
View Article“I was speaking body-to-body.” by Julia on her bed
Wednesday June 21, 2017 10:52pm 5 minutes from an interview with Lidia Yuknavitch on http://www.bloom-site.com Horay, you fixed the bed. Now our bones don’t crumple in at the meeting place. I never...
View Article“I didn’t want to wait in that line either” by Julia on the plane
Friday July 7, 2017 6:25am 5 minutes overheard at Vancouver international airport Dear JT, It’s almost time to say goodbye. We’ve all been awake since four in the morning on account of a sweaty sleep...
View Article“you called me at 5:30, said you couldn’t sleep” by Julia on the 99
Monday August 7, 2017 10:36pm 5 minutes overheard on the 99 The phone buzzes beside my dreams and I think for a sleep second (which in real life is like, 100 wisps of sand) that you are dying and I am...
View Article“We can’t get nothin’ tomorra.” By Julia in her bed
Tuesday November 14, 2017 11:08pm 5 minutes Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck J is beside me reading Grapes Of Wrath. He wants to read out loud but I’m not in the mood. I tell him I just want to let my...
View Article“All I’ve ever learned from love” by Julia on N’s couch
Friday November 24, 2017 10:23pm 5 minutes Hallelujah Leonard Cohen Neck ache: you are nestled into the folds of my body. My body belongs to you during these circuits of heavy breathing. I am afraid to...
View Article“famous for flying around”by Sasha in the bath
Wednesday February 14, 2018 10:52pm 5 minutes Anthony’s Glass Eye Billeh Nickerson Suddenly a song comes on that makes me think of Dan. I haven’t thought of him in a really long time and that feels...
View Article“boys can be dangerous.” by Julia at the studio
Monday, March 19, 2018 3:57pm 5 minutes Undue Familiarity Ellen Collett It is under the covers of this empty bed where I feel the most like nothing. Where are your knotted legs to wrap mine around?...
View Articlethe fortifiers of human agency” by Julia in her bed
Tuesday March 27, 2018 11:14pm 5 minutes On Being Things may have escalated. My alarm clock now tells me how shitty I’m being for sleeping. Not sleeping in, but being tired. Labels as the chimes go...
View Article“in the present moment for” by Julia at her desk
Friday August 16, 2019 7:58am 5 minutes Meditations Marcus Aurelius Right now we are fighting the comfort of our bed fighting the snooze as if together we might be more successfulLight enters the whole...
View Article“You plan, you design, you labor,” by Julia at her desk
Wednesday October 16, 2019 7:55am 5 minutes An Absorbing Errand Janna Malamud Smith It’s the morning but still dark too dark, not dark enough you are awake but not fully here the city looks quiet,...
View Article“Light like sugar cane.” by Julia at her desk
Thursday October 17, 2019 8:30am 5 minutes Daybreak Gerry Lafemina It was all you could do to stop the thud in your brain thhud thhud from the last bit of morning sleep the first heavy fall you’ve had...
View Article“I have eaten his emptiness” by Julia in her kitchen
Saturday November 30, 2019 8:36pm 5 minutes Visit from an incubus Laura Murphy it was 3AM came to me in a dream fed the beast broke the cycle didn’t tell anyone didn’t believe it at first wrote it...
View Article“My new bedroom was an old kitchen.” By Sasha in the living room
Saturday February 15, 2020 12:41pm 5 minutes Waxy Camilla Grudova Hilary brags that her new bedroom was the old kitchen like that’s something to be proud of. She’s got one of those dumb beautiful noses...
View Article“Voice and wisdom” by Julia on her bed
Monday April 13, 2020 11:17am 5 minutes quoting Brené Brown We crossed the river in our dreams Last night I sunk in the dissapointment of my friend’s judgement of me I worried about what she’d say and...
View Article“and took another profound drag on it” by Sasha in the window seat
Thursday May 21, 2020 7:13am 5 minutes The Bonfire Of The Vanities Tom Wolfe When she wakes up in the middle of the night, the crickets shrieking outside the cracked window, she thinks about how long...
View Article“as darkness under your eyelids” by Julia on the couch
Tuesday June 9, 2020 8:55pm 5 minutes how to get over (be born: black…”) T’ai Freedom Ford Sleepless again for the third night in a row or is it morning she was meant to sleep through? She feels like a...
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