Writings

Waiting for Spring

Scarlet was worried. She had not seen her chipmunk friend for a long time. Scarlet was in Grade 5 and she did not have a lot of kid friends, so […]

Inspired by: The forager,
by: Jennifer Sinclair

Rescue Mission

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 […]

Inspired by: Hibernation,
by: Anne Fraser

Noticing

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 […]

Inspired by: We are all universes connected to the beginning of time,
by: Ellen Sim

Snow Day Reflections

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 […]

Inspired by: Snow day in Seabright,
by: Beth Newman

Snow Moon

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 […]

Inspired by: See the moon, I’m looking at it too,
by: Amy Nemeth