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From NEW! Chapter 19 Smartphone From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Wood details many of the problems linked to cellphones, though specifically smartphones. Health afflictions, mental health, relationships, car crashes, as well as other unsettling statisitics. As …	Alex Wood	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Chapter 2 Miley From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	After feeling like a "grown up" after the Just for Laughs gig, Wood describes how he was "a boy again within weeks." Addiction and debt begins to interfere with his gigs and …	Alex Wood	19	2021	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 3 Withdrawal From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Beginning the Alcohol segment in the throes of withdrawal, Wood takes readers through his transition to heavy drinking and the health issues he’s been encountering. He describes his …	Alex Wood	20	2021	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Chapter 4 Playing the Tape Out From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	After losing his wallet during a trip, Wood almost falls back into the alcohol spiral. "A test of resolve." However, following an endoscopy, Wood learns he can add stomach ulcers to a …	Alex Wood	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Chapter 5 Two Fighters From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Wood begins the chapter discussing his friendship with Moaiad, a past roommate. His mother suggests tea when Wood is told the quit coffee, beginning his connection with peppermint tea. Wood …	Alex Wood	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Chapter 6 Wish You Were Here From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Wood’s career trajectory begins to take stronger shape. However, two weeks after a farewell bash thrown in Uncle Noel’s honour, Wood relapses. Though staying strong for his family …	Alex Wood	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Chapter 7 April Fool From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Starting the segment "Alex Wood Quits Everything," Wood explains how he prepared for his podcast where he would quit the rest of his vices in one year. He describes his struggle through …	Alex Wood	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 8 Weed From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Wood discusses his journey with weed, and the dangerous situations he got into to acquire it. He talks about his interview with his recovery friend Marito. "The mental hold of weed" …	Alex Wood	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 9 Caffeine From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	Next is Wood’s journey with coffee, or more importantly, caffeine. Being "coffee-sick" was an ongoing cycle, and with news of his ulcers, Wood tries to sever ties with caffeine. …	Alex Wood	27	2021	$2.70 Add
From "Consuming Love" 1990 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	"Un amour devorant," translated here as "Consuming Love" by Matt Cohen, first appeared in the Montreal literary magazine XYZ in 1990. It is a sly tale with a delicious twist …	Claire Dé	4	1997	$0.24 Add
From NEW! Epilogue The Fight of My Life From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea View Arsenal Pulp Press	The book wraps up with Wood discussing boxing and how a fighter just needs to keep getting up. One loss doesn’t mean everything is over. After a big relapse, Wood is diagnosed with …	Alex Wood	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From "Fleur-de-Mai" 1945 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	Long considered one of Quebec’s most important poets—a special issue of the literary magazine Liberté was devoted to his work in 1960—Grandbois also distinguished himself …	Alain Grandbois	11	1997	$0.66 Add
NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions Arsenal Pulp Press	As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and …	Alex Wood	292	2021	View
From "Foreign Souls" 1934 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	From 1930 until her death in 1964, Marie le Franc also contributed stories and essays to many international journals, including Mercure de France, Liaison, and Garnets victoriens. Most of her …	Marie le Franc	17	1997	$1.02 Add
From From Coffee to Chocolate and Beyond The Founders From: In Pursuit of Justice View Fernwood Publishing		Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne	24	2014	$2.40 Add
From "Happiness" 1946 From: The Quebec Anthology View University of Ottawa Press	"Le bonheur," translated here as "Happiness" by Wayne Grady, is a tale of urban despair, taken from Ringuet’s only book of short stories, L’Heritage (1946). The …	Ringuet	11	1997	$0.66 Add