Can'tLit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Getting Published and Just Wait for Canadians to Love Me

It all began some years ago when I was seventeen...

There was a period in my life when I had just discovered my passion and thrill for writing and story-telling. A period when I wrote exclusively short comedic fiction where nonsensical occurrences were commonplace and I didn't know how/care to create three-dimensional characters. Bizarre things happened to people who didn't deserve it (hmm, sounds a lot like something I still do...).

And for some reason, this is the only period of my "writing career" (ha!) to yield publication in a magazine completely unconnected to my academic environments, or that didn't exist solely on the internet.

Yep, in the summer of 2003, I was published in the underground Canadian alternative arts magazine Broken Pencil. It was a story called "Dandruff." It's about a guy that, well, has significant dandruff problems.

Anyways, after fifteen years of Broken Pencil being around they decided to put together a fiction anthology called "Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine." And guess what? My little stupid story about freaking dandruff is in a fiction anthology of alternative Canadian literature.

Sometimes I don't get the universe, but I laugh anyways.