On Fairmount Street, I pass a sign in a store window. "Coming soon," it said. As I walked by, the sign began to morph until it said, "Already gone." It happened so quickly, and that's exactly how I feel about my time as the CBC/QWF writer-in-residence.

The Cavendish Mall was the beating heart of the neighbourhood when Joshua Levy was growing up in Cte Saint-Luc. Returning for a visit, the 2018 CBC Montreal/QWF writer-in-residence meets a whole new crowd.

When Joshua Levy's parents decided to move out of the family home and into a condo last summer, it fell to him to clean out his childhood bedroom.