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April is deceptively awash in baby-soft pastels. Sunshine candy-coats this month and its last bitter kick of winter—a hidden chill in the well of trees, sullen rings of hardened grey snow resisting the flourish of spring. Yet the woods yearn for resurrection. April is deceptively awash in baby-soft pastels.

You lie. You cheat. You overwhelm us with your mixed emotions. Oh, March, you are a teenager throwing your energy into a truth that changes. The sun shines brighter, but the wind gusts colder—a reminder of the great disparity in life between what you want and what you get. It is also the only month we have universally agreed we need a break from.

"The music and the light from the kitchen poured across the lawn. As if there was nothing to it, easy as anything, to say 'Always.'"

February

Alison Pick, author of Stranger with the Same Dream, takes another look at January and the concept of "New Year, new you" in this short story.

Something unsafe and unpredictable was introduced into December that year. Things were different anyway, even without an uncanny tragedy to mark the shift.

the December Spirit: Heading Home for the Holidays

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October can be so glamorous, with its lingering warmth and that late-afternoon liquid slant of golden light. And then comes light-starved November.

November

The early October nightfall caught me by surprise. In Canada, I coped with the cold of winter. In London, it was a matter of enduring the lack of daylight.

October

September is here and that means waving goodbye to our fling with summer. Novelist Grace O'Connell wrote us a short to prepare us.

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Lisa Moore Reminds Us That October Isn't All About Halloween

September Is the First Blank Page of Award Winning Writer Elizabeth Hay's Essay

Novelist and Playwright Claudia Dey on Her Most Memorable Summer Road Trip

Award-Winning Author Kerri Sakamoto Wants You to Call Your Mom

Award-Winning Author Eden Robinson on Why You Shouldn't Overlook April

March Break: Author Heidi Sopinka Epitomizes the Coming-of-Age Moment

Novelist Anne Michaels Brings Warm Memories to the Chill of February

January Usually Prompts Self Reflection, but is it Really a New Year, New You?

The December Spirit: Heading Home for the Holidays

Noncommittal November: a Placeholder Month Made for Binge-watching

October's Own: When the Sun Shrinks Back and the Dark Stretches

An Ode to September