The Sea-Wave (16 page)

. . .

I
'm in so much pain.

My stomach hurts bad.

My heart broke.

I
can hear the ocean.

I don't know where I am.

Extracts from
The Sea-Wave
were first published in
The Walrus
(online),
Broken Pencil
,
Word Riot
and
Writing Tomorrow
. My thanks to the editors. Thanks to Guernica, too.

Rolli is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist from Regina, SK, Canada. He's the author of two short story collections (
I Am Currently Working On a Novel
 and 
God's Autobio
),
 two collections of poems (
Mavor's Bones
 and
Plum Stuff
) and two children's titles (
Kabungo
and
Dr. Franklin's
Staticy Cat
).
His cartoons appear regularly in
The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Harvard Business Review, The Walrus, Adbusters
and other popular outlets. Visit Rolli's website (
rollistuff.com
) and follow him on Twitter 
@rolliwrites
.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Rolli, 1980-, author

The sea-wave [electronic resource] / Rolli.

(Essential prose ; 121)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77183-053-9 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-77183-054-6 (epub).--

ISBN 978-1-77183-055-3 (mobi)

I. Title. II. Series: Essential prose series ; 121

PS8635.O4465S42 2016 C813'.6 C2016-901518-1 C2016-901519-X

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