Category Archives: Creative Works

Bird Stories

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Dave Pollard

Bowen Island causeway — photo by my friend Judi Gedye in the Undercurrent Monday has become my day for what I am calling “mindless wandering”. The term is a bit of a spoof on the absurdity of “mindfulness”. My objective … Continue reading →

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Reminder

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Dave Pollard

This is a follow-up to my story The Fortune Teller. It is a work of fiction. It was raining, and the strain of the pandemic and all the extra things to remember was finally getting to me. I’d just come … Continue reading →

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Fumbling Joyfully Through the Dark

Posted on September 26, 2020 by Dave Pollard

… nothing but forms becoming and crumbling into the fragments of a new becoming, without love or hate or any intelligible principle of change… nothing but commotion and the pure forms of commotion… not free, but a mote in the … Continue reading →

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We Contain Multitudes

Posted on August 28, 2020 by Dave Pollard

sun flashes, blinks, glimmers through aspen leaves rustling in late summer breeze sparrow watches me below watching her all this complexity, undirected stunning complicity of countless cells, looking after each other, creating more of their kind, doing what they do … Continue reading →

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When the Aliens Come

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Dave Pollard

photo by Mitchell Kaneshkevich When I was younger, I used to fantasize about our beleaguered planet being visited by aliens. Even as a child, I had a better-than-Hollywood imagination — my envisioned aliens never looked in any way humanoid, and … Continue reading →

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Reflections From the Future

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Dave Pollard

this is a work of fiction, and a continuation of the previous story The Lost Tribes Fieldnote 12 September 2092 I wonder what people living in 2020 might think if they could see what the world looked like today, 72 … Continue reading →

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The Lost Tribes

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Dave Pollard

this is a work of fiction:  I’ve been re-reading Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, written in 2005; it speculated then on future human population limits then when the population was 6.7B. It is now more than a billion people … Continue reading →

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A Canadian Sorry

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Dave Pollard

drawing by Elliot Keeler  Perhaps uniquely, Canadians say “sorry” almost automatically when something goes wrong; it does not (often) imply an admission of guilt, or of remorse. In fact, this is so Canadian that our lawyers had to craft (I … Continue reading →

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Under No Illusions

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Dave Pollard

This is a work of fiction. Really.  chart by LA Johnson for NPR “You don’t want to have this discussion.” “Yes I do. I want to understand why you aren’t joining the protest today.” “I’ve told you. I don’t believe … Continue reading →

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Uh Oh… Double CoVid Trouble

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Dave Pollard

author’s rough estimate of current and projected CoVid-19 infection rates, based on data listed above and in the article below; data for the “world” and for Brasil are interpolated from other sources using various assumptions, and are hence much less … Continue reading →

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