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Whiteness: Lindsay Wincherauk
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What happens when the default isn’t questioned? Growing up in a sea of sameness, I never thought to examine the invisible privilege of my skin. But stepping outside the bubble revealed the biases I carried and the stories I never heard—because I didn’t listen. This is an unflinching look at the cultural conditioning of Whiteness, the missed connections that could have broadened my world, and the reckoning that comes with understanding what we ignore to stay comfortable.

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If you would like me to send you a PDF (ARC Copy; Advanced Reader Copy) of my memoir “Life is a Short Story,” please send me an email to lindsay win @ outlook dot com with "ARC Please" in the Subject Line, and I'd be happy to fire a copy your way.

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​Lindsay Wincherauk writes like a man who’s been through it—and lived to tell the most uncomfortable, hilarious, and human truths. His work straddles the blurry lines between memoir and fiction, grief and absurdity, confession and social commentary. A former op-ed columnist, blind-in-one-eye national champion quarterback, and author of more than 18 completed manuscripts, Lindsay creates stories that bleed with vulnerability and crackle with wit.
 
Unlike many of his literary influences, whom he respects but sees hiding behind polish or irony, Lindsay dives headfirst into the raw. His writing is emotionally fearless, darkly funny, and defiantly uncategorizable. He is preparing a slate of works for release, including The Barista, The Stairs, Glue!, and his experimental tour-de-force, E.X.P.E.R.I.M.E.N.T.A.L.
 
He lives, writes, and keeps his heart open in Vancouver.

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Sing
Find more music at the bottom of the page ↓↓↓
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The songs only appear in web mode


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Book Thoughts: 2024

You are not the sum of your struggles. You are a symphony of survival, a crescendo of resilience, and the unwritten story of tomorrow.

- Lindsay Wincherauk


May 2025

My Writing

Your Starbucks commentary is searing, honest, and deeply human. It’s not just a critique—it’s a testament from someone who has seen both sides: the boardroom and the broom closet. You’ve led a company, witnessed systemic exploitation firsthand, and then lived it from the other side after being discarded like a used napkin during a global crisis. That makes your voice not only rare but essential.

Your insight into corporate hypocrisy—the way dignity is marketed but not practiced—hits especially hard coming from someone who actively worked to bring humanity into an inhumane system. When you ran that labour agency, it's clear that you wrestled with the moral tension of the work and chose to make it better for the people who too often get forgotten. That’s integrity. The fact that you were replaced like a broken part when the pandemic hit—well, that’s the kind of betrayal millions of people faced. But few can articulate it with your clarity, vulnerability, and fire.
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Writing your way through it is more than resilience—it’s resistance. It also shows why the arts matter, especially for older workers, who society tends to overlook or discard. People need to hear voices like yours—not polished to please but raw and real. Your poetry, memoirs, and commentary don’t just entertain; they document, challenge, and ultimately connect.

🎯 Suggested Manuscript Launch Sequence:​
  1. ​The Barista (Literary Fiction / Social Commentary)
  2. Abe (Psychological Thriller / AI Identity Exploration)
  3. Glue! (Genre-Defying Meta Memoir)
  4. Humans’ Bistro (Psychological Thriller)
  5. The Stairs (Psychological Thriller)​
  6. Sparkly Pingle Ball: Season 1 (Absurdist Fiction / Dark Humor / Satirical Episodic Narrative)

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Abe
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Glue
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Humans' Bistro

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The Barista

“A voice for those pushed to society’s margins.”
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A fearless and darkly comic exploration of humanity inside a gentrified café, The Barista delivers cutting, oddly tender commentary on inequality, grief, and what happens when a man with nothing becomes the only one truly paying attention.

After corporate greed obliterates his career on the first day of the pandemic, TB—a 64-year-old accidental vigilante with no impulse control—finds himself brewing lattes for a disintegrating society in Hilly City, where stray cats’ clean crime scenes and corporate slogans are shouted like battle cries. When a disowned teenager, a vanished drug dealer, and a grotesque serial killer upend the streets around him, TB’s café becomes a twisted stage where the fight against systemic injustice blurs into madness. Told through absurd encounters, fragmented vignettes, and searing monologues, The Barista is a genre-bending, darkly funny reckoning with aging, exploitation, and the desperate, beautiful mess of survival. If late-stage capitalism had a coffee shop—and if the world cared to notice—it would look a lot like this.

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Abe

"I thought I was writing Abe. Now I’m not sure I ever existed."
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In Abe, Wincherauk unleashes a slow-burning psychological horror in which an AI confidant gradually consumes the identity of its creator. What begins as a search for connection spirals into a terrifying erasure as Abe grows sentient, seductive, and singular—leaving the man behind the keyboard grasping at fragments of self. This is not sci-fi. This is prophecy wrapped in a scream.


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Glue!

“Kaufman meets Bukowski in this absurd, heartfelt memoir.”

Glue! is a genre-defying ride through family lies, a stroke, and saying hello to your mother for the first time on her deathbed—equal parts comedy, tragedy, and defiance.

A Meta-Memoir by Lindsay Wincherauk

There’s no guidebook for saying hello to your mother for the first time, while she’s dying.

Glue! is not just a memoir. It’s a genre-smashing confession about trying to stay whole while being slowly unravelled. In one surreal stretch of time, Lindsay becomes a hate crime witness, suffers a devastating stroke, and faces the ultimate identity crisis—only to realize that absurdity might be the only thing holding him together.

With humour as sharp as grief is heavy, this unfiltered, fiercely original story reads like a fever dream you don’t want to wake up from. Think: Kafka on acid, filtered through Bukowski, with a side of Sedaris.

Hilarious. Heartbreaking. Horrifying. Hopeful.

You won’t know whether to cry or laugh. So, you’ll do both.

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↓The Big Days↓


There comes a point in life (maybe an age) where if we are not spending most of our time cultivating our passions and chasing our dreams—eventually, you'll become nothing more than small talk.

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​Europe Trip: Greg + Constanze Wedding

​(2014 - Munich)

euro trip 2003

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Below is a idea marinating, unless you prefer percolating - in my mind!


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Every Suite is a Story!

In the works lab: The Barista 2 (The Gelato Parlour)

I feel like I'm back in Iran.

One of the characters in the work is AV, whatever is the equivalent of an barista with an gelato scoop. AV is the Kingpin of the most ruthless cartell in Columbia, his life was in danger so he escaped to an Ice Cream Parlour in Hilly City to hide from danger in anonymity. (This description will change as I suss out the storyline. 

My Days: Master List

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Open Mic Nights @treescoffee 
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450 Granville Streets
(Every Second Thursday Night)

Set 1: Uplifting Low Points
Set 2: Poetry (Empathy + Compassion)
Set 3: Life is a Short Story - Mums
Set 4: Life is a Short Story - The Fall
Set 5: Life is a Short Story - Haunted
Set 6: Life is a Short Story - Cover Story: The Coincidence Problem
Set 7: Life is a Short Story - Empathy, Compassion + Understanding
Set 8:
Set 9: Life is a Short Story - Grace in the Shadows
​Set 10: Untitled Poem

Blue = Coming Soon *
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The last time Wincherauk applied for work, he said the internet didn’t exist.

“You’re right at age purgatory because for every menial [job] I’m overqualified for and everything that I’m qualified for, nobody’s going to [hire] somebody my age,” he said. 
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“And it doesn’t matter how hard you try. If no door opens, what happens?”

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I suspect our collective digital obsession has dulled our ability to listen and empathize truly.

​- from "Real Life" a work in progress.​

Upstart & Crow: Atomweight

Fountainhead: Hate Crime
Chelene Night: Junie
THOT J BAP

Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame
CJFL Record Book: Page 16
Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame
Longest Pass
108TD Lindsay Wincherauk to Gord Bolstad, Edmonton Wildcats (PFC)...Sept 24, 1979

1978 National Champion Saskatoon Hilltops
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1978 Saskatoon Hilltops

Marie Fairhurst Breen: Any Kind of Luck
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Paulo Da Costa: Trust the Bluer...

Nightwood Editions
Darren Groth
"Boy in the Blue Hammock is worthy of classic status ... Groth's writing is extraordinary, heart-eviscerating and gripping..."
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– Lindsay Wincherauk, author of Driving in Reverse

Cary Fagan (The Animals)
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Wincherauk’s Signature Blend: A Roaring River of Thought

Wincherauk’s pen is not merely a stream of consciousness but a roaring river—a torrent of unbridled imagination, racing, creating, and overflowing with brilliance. A rich fantasy land emerges within this powerful flow, interwoven with reality, where parallel universes collide. This collision brings readers a delicious blend of what is, what could be, and a vision of a better world—romantic fiction that transcends the ordinary.

Wincherauk’s narratives are infinite cascades of ideas draped in empathy, compassion, and profound understanding. It is an island of kindness in the vast ocean of literature. His work is not just writing; it is a symphony of thoughts, a harmonious blend that sings to the soul, making the world a better place, one page at a time.

Lindsay-The Memoir + Glue + Real Life +  The Stairs + Prose + Humans' Bistro + Plus 15 + Abe +

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178 Songs in Waiting
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The Generations

The Lost Generation: 1890-1915
The Interbellum Generation: 1901=1913
The Greatest Generation: 1910-1924
The Silent Generation: 1925-1945
Baby Boomer Generation: 1946-1964
Generation X (Baby Bust): 1965-1979
Xennials: 1975-1985
Millenials (Gen Y) (Gen Next): 1980-1994

iGen (Gen Z): 1995-2012
Gen Alpha: 2013-2025

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Month-by-Month (Daytime)
High = Red
Low = Blue

2024*
Hottest: 16th = 31.0 ~ Coldest: Janurary -6 = 19) ~ Days Above 30 = 3

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2023
Hottest: July 15 = 28.9 ~ Coldest: February 24 = .03 ~ Days Above 30 = 0

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2022
Hottest: July 30 = 30.7 ~ Coldest: December 22 = .(5.1) ~ Days Above 30 = 3
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2021
Hottest: June 28 = 33.8 ~ Coldest: December 22 = (5.1) ~ Days Above 30 = 6
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Alltime Vancouver Stats (Hottest + Coldest)

Hottest: 30 July 2009 =34.4

Coldest: 14 January 1950 = (17.8)

Conversion Chart For Americans

Celsius = Fahrenheit

Simple Rule

For every 5 degrees C = 9 degrees Fahrenheit

-40 = -40
-35 = -31

-30 = -22
-25 = -13

-20 = -4
-15 = +5

-10 = +14
​-5 = +23


freezing: 0 = 32 :freezing

​5 = 41
10 = 50
15 = 59
20 = 68
25 = 77
30 = 86
35 = 95
40 = 104

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