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Category: Personal Essay

Non-fictional writing of a personal nature.

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The story of Catharine

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 3, 2016November 21, 2016

When Catharine was a child, her parents told stories. Some were written in books, others…

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The last Neanderthal

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on November 1, 2016November 21, 2016

Vaja has crossed the water alone after burying Tahna under darkness, debarking at sunrise below…

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Connected

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 31, 2016November 21, 2016

[June 21, 1975] I am on my back a half-naked animal fever bitten with a…

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A brief study in time

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 27, 2016November 21, 2016

You were a fool but then youth is wasted on the young. Suppose I could…

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The autobiography of a spoon

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 26, 2016November 21, 2016

I am a spoon in a laminate pressboard drawer, my pitted bowl heavenward to the…

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Creation

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 25, 2016November 21, 2016

You have to understand My darlings. Yes I’ve come back but not in a conflagration…

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My fellow citizens of shopping

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 24, 2016November 21, 2016

I’ve come for socks and I am leaving with a glass vase that I don’t…

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There is a time

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 21, 2016November 21, 2016

People are cunning and determined and focused. As you read these words, people are busy…

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  • Personal Essay

Mr Chopin, are you suffering greatly?

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 20, 2016November 9, 2016

Brahms was a perfectionist so overwhelmed by Beethoven’s influence that it took him twenty-one years…

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  • Personal Essay

Mo

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 19, 2016November 9, 2016

Morrie is from Valley East in the Sudbury Basin, a long way from this west-end…

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  • Personal Essay

The Gettysburg Address

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 18, 2016November 9, 2016

It was a huge number of years ago. I mean, I don’t know, like a…

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  • Personal Essay

All the things we can’t do without

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 17, 2016November 9, 2016

From the somewhere beyond a pedicel has pricked the baseboard and attached itself to the…

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  • Personal Essay

To boil a frog

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 14, 2016November 9, 2016

I was in an Upper Manhattan bar with Herbert J. Gans, around the time he…

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  • Personal Essay

Celebrities

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 13, 2016November 9, 2016

Everywhere I go, I see them. I am talking about the celebrities. The day arrived…

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  • Personal Essay

The Pirates of Memory

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 12, 2016November 9, 2016

My brain was on a loop, forever reprocessing the same irrational thought, so I slept…

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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Winner of the 2016 Forest of Reading Golden Oak Award and finalist of the 2015 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

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