There are days I think of Adam’s heart exploding, as my heart exploding like a fluted glass shattering into a billion shards inside of me.
more loveAuthor: Doug Raphael
Doug Raphael is an architect living in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his three children, wife and Wheaten
Terrier. He has been published in “The Big Window Review,” (Summer Issue 2025), Oddball Magazine
(June 2025), “Studio East 94-95” (Dalhousie University Press), and “Planning Housing For Change”
(McGill Affordable Homes Program). He is currently enrolled in the creative writing program at
Dalhousie University and is struggling to figure out how to make creative writing a full-time gig.