{"id":761,"date":"2006-05-09T02:08:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=761"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:13:02","slug":"spacing-fiction-23-bay-23-bay-23-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/05\/09\/spacing-fiction-23-bay-23-bay-23-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING FICTION: &#8220;23 Bay, 23 Bay, 23 Bay&#8230;&#8221; by Jim Munroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/archives\/images\/bay-subway-JB.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spacing has a number of articles from our <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/in-this-issue.htm\">public transit issue<\/a> that we saved to publish exclusively on Spacing.ca. Last week we posted Robin Rix&#8217;s look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\/archives\/8\/\">inspiring transit system<\/a> of Mumbai, India, and this week we are happy to bring you a <strong>short fiction story called <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/archives\/23\/\">&#8220;23 Bay, 23 Bay, 23 Bay&#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> by local author and DIY publishing guru <a href=\"http:\/\/nomediakings.org\">Jim Munroe<\/a>. The story follows two inquisitive young men who are trying to sneak into Toronto&#8217;s abandoned Lower Bay subway station. A little excerpt below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All I was in for, originally, was the Lost Subway Station. That I wanted to see. It appealed to me as a kind of urban Atlantis, disappearing beneath our consciousness and leaving a dizzying swirl of rumour and mystery in its wake. 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