It snowed again last night. Julia Jensen watched the snow come down all night in the glow of the streetlights. She couldn’t sleep, thinking about her first day tomorrow as a teacher at Bayview Community School in Mahone Bay. Will the road be cleared? Will the kids give her a hard time? A text comes […]
Wow, it’s the morning after a good ole nor’easter in Nova Scotia. What a monster of a storm it was. The snow resembles a soft white blanket covering cars and everything in its path. At first glance, it’s a daunting awareness of being completely snowed in and at the mercy of a massive snow plow. […]
She noticed it in her hands first. The age, I mean. They worked so hard for so many years making a living, loving life. Creating and making is what these hands did mostly. They made floral bouquets, they made good food, they made love, and created joy around her and others. These hands are worthy […]
Jack Macdonald couldn’t feel his feet anymore. He had been outside in a snowstorm looking for the stupid cat for nearly two hours. To make it worse, he didn’t even like the cat. It belonged to his wife, Denise. She had come home with the animal nearly two years ago after Buck, Jack’s Labrador retriever, […]
by Deanna Foster ‘Pathe to Death’ stared at Trix on the grey piece of wood. Drawings of skulls, and other warning symbols, surrounded the words. She wouldn’t walk down the path, which was a narrow trail that carved through tall trees, their bare branches clacking together in the chilled winter wind. With twilight approaching, the […]
They took my friend Joy away today, zipped up in a red body bag. I’ll not forget that last unglamorous moment we shared. Instead, I’ll remember seeing her last month at my Christmas party shaking hands with one of my large male friends, and saying in her best Rodney Dangerfield voice with a knowing wink, […]
