Terence Byrnes

Terence Byrnes is a Montreal writer and photographer. His books include "Wintering Over" and "Closer to Home: The Author and the Author Portrait." Byrnes, who teaches creative writing at Concordia University, won a 2017 National Magazine Award (Gold) for his text-and-image portrait of Springfield, a post-industrial city in southern Ohio.

Young Woman Pointing (in a Landscape)

The nurse standing behind him tucked a strand of dark hair into her lavender hijab before grasping the rail on the back of his gurney. “Gib” Gibson and his surgeon had been discussing the modern hospital building that was under construction while they waited for an operating theatre here in the old one. The stony turrets and false battlements of this showy Victorian relic on the Montréal skyline would soon be put to some new purpose. Read more.

Short Story
Issue 35
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