All My
Published
Writing

Westmorland Street Bridge
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Photo by Forrest Orser

This website has all my published stories and poems. If you want to read one of them, click on the title.

Stories

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Lions Are a Lot Like Us

By Forrest Orser

Spring-Summer 2014,
carte blanche
Megan and I met the lions because I wanted to go to the zoo. I’d read about the zoo in…
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Soap and Sex

By Forrest Orser

November 2011,
Soliloquies Anthology
Measuring detergent always reminds me of casual sex with a woman named Paula. “Paula seems nice,” I said to Dave….
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Wild Horses on an Island

By Forrest Orser

Summer 2011,
The Fiddlehead
“There are wild horses on Sable Island. There have been for more than 200 years,” the woman on the video…
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Assorted Mooseheads

By Forrest Orser

2003,
New Brunswick Short Stories
Summer 1974,
The Antigonish Review
Hello, my name’s Frederic McLuhan and I live in Fredericton. I’m a student at the University of New Brunswick, third…
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Poems

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Your call is not important to us

By Forrest Orser

October 14, 2023,
Poetry Erratic #2
If we cared about your call
we would have hired a person to answer the phone.
But we don’t care…
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Balance

By Forrest Orser

April 15, 2023,
Poetry Pause
Fall 1997,
The Cormorant
I can’t get
my ceiling fixed;
I don’t have time
to do my laundry…
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The zed poem

By Forrest Orser

Summer/Fall 2010,
The Nashwaak Review
There are so many zeds in his life it’s zany.
He is using a zoom lens
when he happens to…
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Back from Jamaica

By Forrest Orser

Summer/Fall 2010,
The Nashwaak Review
I just got back from Jamaica.
There it’s hot and sunny — here it’s cold and icy.
Last night,
I…
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About Forrest Orser

Photo of Forrest Orser taken by Glenda Greene
Photo by Glenda Greene

I’ve only lived in two cities and the St. John River flows through the middle of both of them. Continue reading →

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