C. White

C. White writes short stories, and sometimes poetry and non-fiction, when not working as a high school English and Social Sciences teacher in Toronto. She received an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor’s of Education and Master of Arts in Philosophy of Education at the University of Toronto. Her fiction has appeared in the Canadian literary journal Grain; her poetry has appeared in Backwater Review and Tessera; and her nonfiction has been published in a variety of far-left rags and the academic journals Alternate Routes and Canadian Woman Studies. In 2004, her short story 'So Romantic', won the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Award for short fiction.

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You can play with growing up without growing up. You can play with love without loving. You can play with skipping rope without skipping.
In particular, playing Snakey is good for the kids who have no sense of rhythm or coordination. The ones who can’t walk down the street with a friend without bumping hips every ten feet; the ones that need their seatbelt buckled up for them ‘til they’re twelve. Good for them to face jumping over one single thing, or to be the one in charge.
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