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Broken Pencil on Jordan Scott's art of stuttering

From Broken Pencil, Issue 41. By Erin Kobayashi.

If Jordan Scott's stutter magically disappeared and he continued to play soccer and rugby, his life could be very different right now. Fortunately, Scott's stutter stuck around. And as luck would have it, he broke his kneecap at 19 and was forced to stay inside for the summer. It was during that recovery period when Scott began to take his first serious stabs at poetry.

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Twenty Miles pulls familiar heartstrings for hockey lovers – and for everyone

Fiction Book of the Issue
By Sara Plourde
Broken Pencil
Issue 39

At first, I didn't think I could write this review: conflict of interest. There are times I slip into my trainers, pull a sweater on, heave hockey equipment over my shoulder and head for the rink, and it's laboured, a struggle. I see maybe too much of myself in Isabel (Iz), the protagonist of Twenty Miles – trying to connect, find hope, find a reason in a game. Sometimes I know the game is in my blood, where it has always been, and it roils beneath the surface; sometimes it's lost there, though, hiding inside the marrow, and I need to set myself looking for it.

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