Last stop

It was an incongruous day. I emerged from my apartment to find the staircase covered in dry, yellow leaves, and yet the temperature stood at nearly thirty degrees. As I ran my weekly errands, I felt impossibly sad, knowing that this is well and truly the last gasp of summer. There is no turning back now.

It is, as every Montrealer knows, harder to be alone in winter. The whole city retreats indoors, leaving its streets and parks to the snow. Warmth becomes a precious substance, one that is forever leaking out through the cracks in things, which are, suddenly, everywhere. Baseboard heaters struggle audibly, clicking and clanking without discernible effect. On certain days, even the Caf

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