Coming in March 2026
Terrace IV: Noonday Demon
Curated by Sarah L. Pratt & Robert Bose
The world is a busy place, everyone rushing in mad circles somehow convinced that if you aren’t winning, you must be losing. But, for every unnatural force that drives you forward, there is a Noonday Demon to assist your vapid lounging, feet up, dissociating on Instagram, drinking larcenously priced mocktails in oblivious demotivation.
We invite you to join us on Terrace IV of Purgatory Towers and sink deep into these bizarre, creepish, and frequently hilarious, tales of sloth. You’ll find stern minions of Hell welcoming a lazy new arrival, a delivery man in China charged with transporting a suspiciously shaped package, and a cautionary tale of the perils of moving too fast through this life. From the vagaries of corporate damnation, to letting sleeping titans lie, to prehistoric megafauna, the fourth deadly sin manifests unexpected forms. So embrace the torpor and release yourself from the burden of virtuous productivity. You’ll be surprised at how good it feels…and maybe a little afraid.
With stories and art by Jason Pearce, Elizabeth Whitton, Susan Zhao, Cam Hayden, Sarah L. Pratt and Robert Bose.
2025 Release!
Desert Artemisia – Badlands Bits & Bones
Curated by Robert Bose, Sarah L. Pratt & Jim Jackson
The Alberta Badlands. A region better known for what lies beneath – coal, fossils, and the geologic strata of deep time – than what lives above. Living itself is an act of rebellion in these scarred hills. Alongside the hardy sage, prickly pear, and circling crows, there are certain people drawn to the fragile beauty of this land, where Old Gods emerge from the sun-baked sediment, calling to lost souls. A broken-hearted grave digger discovers that nothing in the badlands can be buried, without unearthing something else. In the long shadow of the Hoodoos, night blooming flowers conceal a gateway to salvation, and immortality is on offer within the damp, black wounds carved deep into the earth. But always for a price. The price of bone, and blood. Desert Artemisia is a collection of fiction, poetry, illustrations, and music created and curated by artists deeply captivated by one of the most haunting places on Earth.
With art by Janice Blaine, Poems and Photography by Peter Story and Bob Canuel, Music by Jim Jackson, and prose by Jim Jackson, Lareina Abbott, F.B. McRory, Sarah L. Pratt and Robert Bose
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The Seventh Terrace gratefully makes its Earthly home in Calgary-Mohkinstsis, on Treaty 7 territory, and that of Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts 5 and 6. We acknowledge the histories, languages, and cultures of all First Nations, whose presence continues to enrich our shared tradition of storytelling.