Sneak Peek! Uprooted

One of the many new Sky­train stops along Cam­bie. Pho­to­graph by Eric Thompson

Sad Mag launches issue two on Decem­ber 17. Until then, we’re releas­ing sneak peeks from the new issue.

When I moved into Cam­bie Vil­lage, which is roughly book­ended by Broad­way and King Edward Avenue, there were a dis­il­lu­sion­ing num­ber of empty store­fronts with “For Lease” signs in the win­dows and orange pylons were a semi-permanent fix­ture along the roads and side­walks. One of my favourite used book­stores, Kestrel Books, was mere months away from relo­cat­ing to Kit­si­lano and much of their stock was reduced for clear­ance. I scoured the shelves with a mild sense of guilt about the fact that by acquir­ing these books at a frac­tion of their cost, I was los­ing some­thing more important.

—Melissa Sawatsky

Win­ter 2009, ISSUE TWO