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Stories

“Lions Are a Lot Like Us”

– Spring-Summer 2014, carte blanche published by the Quebec Writers’ Federation 

"Wild Horses on an Island” 

– Summer 2011, The Fiddlehead, published at the University of New Brunswick

“Soap and Sex” 

– 2011, Soliloquies Anthology, published at Concordia University

"Assorted Mooseheads"

–  2003, New Brunswick Short Stories, published by Neptune Publishing of Saint John, N.B. 

–  Summer 1974, The Antigonish Review, published at St. Francis Xavier University

Poems

 “Your call is not important to us” 

– October 14, 2023, the second in the Poetry Erratic series of broadsheets published by the Emergency Flash Mob Press, Fredericton

“Balance” 

 – April 15, 2023, Poetry Pause, the League of Canadian Poets’ poem-a-day email

program: https://poets.ca/balance-by-forrest-orser/

− Fall 1997,  The Cormorant, published at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John

– 1974, Up The Hill, the University of New Brunswick Fredericton student yearbook

“The zed poem” and “Back from Jamaica” 

− Summer/Fall 2010, The Nashwaak Review, published at St. Thomas University

“Wal-Mart death” 

− Spring 2010, The Antigonish Review, published at St. Francis Xavier University

“Where was James Bond born?” 

− Summer 2009, The Antigonish Review, published at St. Francis Xavier University

"The Nonymous poems"  

– 2009, Nonymous, an independent Fredericton literary magazine 

"Cheeseburger yourself” 

− Spring 1997, The Cormorant, published at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John.