FIRST CREATIVE WRITING ASSIGNMNT OF 2026 WINTER SEMESTER WINDSOR UNIVERSITY
STEPHEN WEIR says “I am using a strict lipogrammatic constraint taking out the letter “E,” deliberately removing the most frequently used vowel in English. A STORY ABOUT STEVE WEIR HOLDING HIS BREATH WHEN HE IS IN AN ELEVATOR AND RESCUING CATS FROM SUNKEN LADAS (No “E” No Air No Rhyming, Floor 32. Cats Can’t Swim,) Balcony drinks. Upstairs unit guy falls during our cocktail hour ( or went down with aid? ) “Air-holding kings can last 5–10 min” are scrawls in my blog’s talk-back box. “As it was, is, and shall stay, world without limit. Amnhb.” Bad call moving into our cloud-scraping Toronto condo. I sought always to daily spy on the giant CN Stick in sight from our balcony! cocktails in hand. Day winds down as CN lights lit up skyward, and Whoosha Russian spy drops past us on his rapid way to ground — 40 floors straight down. A Russian Air Crash. a man had said i...