The winter can be long, cold, and hard. Even the holidays can be terrible. Then, there comes a time of year when some places are no longer used. No longer needed. No longer wanted. It's the coldest part of the year, in nearly every sense. It is when a lot of the world is... Closed for the Season. Sometimes people go into those places anyway. Dare you follow them? Stories by:Lee F. Patrick, Rob Nisbet, Ross Baxter, D. H. Aire, Eve Morton, James Burt, Jerri Moyes, Wade Hunter, R. C. Mulhare, Kay Hanifen, Brian MacDonald, Alicia Cay, Nathan Carson, Kelly Piner, Jodi Rizzotto, Jessica Guernsey, Stacey Dighton.  Edited by Sam Knight.

Particular Passages: Closed for the Season - Particular Passages, #6

Ethan Cohle is a sarcastic, underemployed transgender man working at a Canadian Duty Free Shop with hopes to one day pay for his last surgery. Even though his life falls flat in just about every area, when an adventure is presented by a man carrying supernatural creatures in a jar, Ethan only says yes because it's a bigger and easier pay check. As things become more and more complicated, Ethan's life and assumptions about those around him begin to unravel. When Ethan becomes haunted, and his body seems to turn against him, Ethan begins to understand what it's like to lose a piece of yourself, along with everyone else.

The Last Piece of Us

Seven years ago, Sebastian Munro changed his life immensely by transitioning and starting a graduate degree at the University of Ottawa. Now that his degree-and his cash flow-has run its course, however, he finds himself on a Greyhound bus back to his suburban town outside of Toronto in early 2006. Though his high school friends are well aware of his transition, many have yet to see Sebastian face-to-face. Instead of dreading the reunion, Sebastian looks forward to it-until his parents announce their divorce, his former best friend won't speak to him, and he realizes he has become a stranger in a place that was once so familiar. Rather than returning to Ottawa, he is forced to stay in Durham Region when he witnesses a crime at the local restaurant run by a family friend. Until the trial finishes, and until an academic job comes through, Sebastian must learn to stay exactly where he is-whether he now wants to or not. When he reaches out to his former best friend's older brother, Garrison, their budding relationship shapes and changes everything Sebastian thought he knew about his previous life, secret identities, and the power of home. Now that Sebastian has found a way to survive in his hometown as the person he always knew himself to be, he realizes he faces a decision especially as an academic job opportunity emerges. Does he continue with his new fantasy life in his hometown, thereby leaving his former academic and trans community aside-or does he go back to the life that made him who he is now and leave his family and friends one more time?

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