Martin O'Boy's life is not easy. His beloved Granny has just died, his pregnant mother and father fight all the time and his twin, Phil, is completely incapacitated. Martin is the one his mother counts on. But life in Ottawa's Lowertown is not all bad. He has his best friend, Billy Batson (a.k.a. Captain Marvel), the movies, his cat Cheap and there's the glamorous Buz from next door, who is off at the war. As the war comes to an end with the bombing...

The quixotic tale of tall, thin Harriet Browning, inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child.

"Dan has an increasingly common problem: climate anxiety. After a storm devastated parts of Ottawa, it's hard to get climate change out of mind. Dan goes to help clean up at the school, but only one other person turns up: Levi, who is handsome, progressive—and shows a strong interest in Dan. And what's more, Levi is also pondering gender fluidity and the necessity of applying any labels at all. Dan falls just as hard, and it's clear they're going...