The Adirondack Haystack Still Floats

from Balls of Rice

In these times where success is measured in dollar figures and the remarkable people are those with the most views on a screen, the unexceptional must be examined. Not from behind the glass of a BMW M3 while driving across town, but rather from the bridges under which they live and teach philosophy, from the community centres in which they share lessons of furniture sales, from living rooms in which they build shrine-like robots. From these settings where mediocrity is presupposed, The Adirondack Haystack Still Floats brings fairy-tale realities and surreal episodes to the reader in a dynamic discovery of truth.

Retired pension recipients are often deemed as dispensable, UPS Deliverymen as the pinnacle of uninteresting, Mexican street criminals as detestable—all because of facile assumptions of their societal worth, when they are the cells of the blood that pumps through an entire population. The Adirondack Haystack Still Floats shares the inventive stories of twelve human beings who were scattered throughout North America like chickenfeed, landing only in the neighbourhoods with Greyhound Bus service. In their own way, each character is a reminder that the blue-collar social class is the one upon all of our values were founded, and in their peculiar ways of surviving suggest that they shouldn’t be considered the mediocre at all.

Artwork: Meghan Fenske

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Balls of Rice Saskatchewan

Stories and poems written mostly on Treaty 4, Treaty 6, and Lekwungen Territory.

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Photo: Courtney Boe

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