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True Blue
Elvis isn’t dead. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, on a bench outside the grocery store. “One for the money!” I’m always tempted to say, as I dump a pathetic amount of change into his blistery ...
Nicole Leona Smith is a writer and theatre creator based in Cambridge, Ontario. Her work as a playwright has been supported by the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), the Shaw Festival, and Canadian Stage. Girls From Away is Nicole’s most recent play-in- progress – a co-creation with Berni Stapleton, currently in development through Newfoundland’s Arts and Culture Centres and set to have its world premiere in 2021. Last spring, Nicole was recipient of the inaugural ‘Young Writer’s Bursary’ through The New Quarterly (TNQ) and is currently working on a novel, with support from TNQ & the OAC. Nicole’s essays and short fiction can be found in a number of publications, most recently The New Quarterly (issue155) and Ember Chasm Review (issue02).
Elvis isn’t dead. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, on a bench outside the grocery store. “One for the money!” I’m always tempted to say, as I dump a pathetic amount of change into his blistery ...