Slowly, they start to gather their things and board the bus. I take the time to extinguish the fire and load the last of the supplies. Just before I board the bus myself, I hustle to take one last photograph, another long exposure shot. With my camera pointed to the north, I adjust from a portrait to a landscape setting and am about to click the shutter when something catches my eye.

    The horizon is glowing …

Bio:

Ben von Jagow is a Canadian writer living in Paris. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature, Prairie Fire, the Antigonish Review, EVENT, the Fiddlehead, Newfoundland Quarterly, filling Station, and the Literary Review of Canada, among other publications. His debut poetry collection, Goalie, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions (see benvj.com).