Note: You may notice a slight increase in the price of my zines. I'm really sorry, & I tried to hold off as long as I could, because I thought 3$ was way enough for a black & white zine, but unfortunately, Canada Post seems adamant in raising its prices not even yearly as they did before, but now every 3 months!! I've even carefully counted & weighed the number of pages in zines so to stay in the lower bracket of price range but I still had to up the prices a bit. Prices shown is actually what it costs me to make and mail the zines to you!! I am always amazed to check the corner of envelopes I get and see how cheap mail is in the US!!!!

If you are buying more than one zine, send me an email & I can work out a combined shipping rate & then send you a Paypal invoice or give you the total price :)

My zines are also available on ETSY! Please considring looking through my stuff as I am going through a rough patch of life lately [details coming soon in Happy Loner #4.....] I need to update my bio too on the "the girl page".... oh my




THE HAPPY LONER #3 Fall 2006...........................................................................................................[excerpts]

+ "contact lenses & Monarch butterflies" : update on the summer, my take on the "Quirkyalone" movement, an ode to Fall, falling out with "friends", radio on the city bus, going "straight-edge" [sort of], mental health tips, reader mail, Charlie Chaplin & keeping your head up

1/2-letter, 24pp. Canada 4$ can - USA 4$US - Everywhere else 6$US - prices are postage paid
Distros: wholesale 1$ each + shipping, email for a quote depending on quantity






Girl w/Cat #1 premiere issue, grief . remembrance . recovery ..................................................................................[excerpts]

Deals with the loss of a beloved pet [my cat Malenikiy]
Under the form of the different pieces of a funerary oraison, known as a Requiem, this encompasses the two first years of my grieving process: the initial soul-shattering, value-shaking, making-you-doubt-everythig terrible shock, the anger & rage of injustice, the incomprehension, immense sadness, depression, & finally the road back to recovery & peace [bumpy, but it does have a light at the end].

1/2-letter, 36pp. Canada 4$ can - USA 4$US - Everywhere else 6$US
Distros: wholesale 1$ each + shipping




THE HAPPY LONER #2 Spring 2006...........................................................................................................[excerpts]

+ an extensive reader letters section w/ reaction to issue #1 & my answers, letters in french & english; poems about solitude by my fiancé & me, the usual daily vignettes of the life of the happy loner in Quebec City, a rant about copycats, tips for stealing a pepper-shaker in a restaurant, recipes with simple herbs & spices, zine reviews

1/2-letter, 28pp. Canada 4$ can - USA 4$US - Everywhere else 6$US
Distros: wholesale 1$ each + shipping Out of print, is not worth re-printing. I was so depressed when I made it, you better get #3 or [soon to come] #4 instead]. Will not be re-printed.




THE HAPPY LONER #1 Summer 2005.............................................................................................................[excerpts]

+ What is a Happy Loner?, Happy Loner activities, connotations positive & negative associated with the "loner", summer & [in]tolerance, a "ratty" incident that took place on the bus, a former neighbour I keep seeing around, crossworld puzzles, bus schedules & other stuff happy loners relish, anatomy of a day, vignettes of urban life

1/2-letter, 40pp. Canada 5$ can - USA 5$US - Everywhere else 6.50$US
Distros: wholesale 1.25$ each + shipping
currently on its 5th re-print!! This one is definitely gonna be available forever.





Meetings The story of 3 meetings ........................................................................................[excerpts]
→ how I met my friend Catherine because of a pushy phys.ed. teacher and my inability to rollerskate
↑ how I met my friend Stéphane because of a brand-new pager and my being a total scatterbrain
← how I met my friend J-P because of the little red light on my digital audio recorder

1/4-letter, 40 pp. Canada 4$ can - USA 4$US - Everywhere else 6$US
Distros: wholesale 1$ each + shipping


P a r a p h e #1 : unsent letters of the non-scornful kind ........................................................................................[excerpts]

Unsent letters written by me: a friendly letter to an ex-bf; a note I wrote an ex upon realizing I was living unhappily and headed for disaster and took the decision to change that while watching the "Amélie" movie; a spontaneous happy letter to an ex; a letter I wrote to a 17-year-old crush; a recent letter to my current boyfriend that I forgot to mail and found in a notebook.



In french. 1/4-legal, 32 pp. Canada 4$ can - USA 4$US - Everywhere else 6$US
Distros: wholesale 1$ each + shipping


Vintage Entries #1 : I Used to be a MOIST Girl ................................................................................ [excerpts]
This re-formatted, thick "mini" tells the story of an extraordinary cross-Canada train trip when I decided to follow my then-favourite band, MOIST, on their pan-canadian tour back in 1997.

+train travel, mishaps, encouters & adventures, tales of freezing cold, being broke & mosh-pit trauma, obnoxious blonde girls peeing in plastic gloves, shiny metallic dresses lined with fake fur & the band's name embroidered on front, backstage passes, bootleg making & rock shows galore Note: French version out-of-print, only available in english. Désolée.

76 pages, 1/4-size longways Canada 8$ can - USA 8$US - Everywhere else 11$US
Distros: wholesale 2$ each + shipping


To get zines :
Paypal the money to girl_w_cat@yahoo.com
or mail well-concealed US$ or can$ to Iza Straightshooter, PO Box #71, Succursale B, Québec QC G1K 7A1 CANADA.
Canadian residents send canadian $$, everyone else send US$. Thank you!
Inquiries? girl_w_cat@yahoo.com



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