A drive by the ruins of a childhood home puts a new perspective on the old adage “You can never go home again.”
If I Said Yes…
A woman wearing a cowl which is keeping her face in permanent shadow stands ramrod straight at the door; the only movement is the glittering of her eyes as they rove over me, judging, finding me guilty and passing sentence over me, all at the same time.
Beauty and the Janitor
During her painful recovery from an accident, beautiful model and actress Tawni, tired of dating narcissistic, misogynist, and insecure celebrities, finds her perfect man – a homely library janitor with a thing for model trains
First Call Out
Darkness bleeds from the walls as I step from bright daylight into the house of death. The hovering ghoulish odour of mortality chokes me. A fierce battle of fight or flight takes place during that one step. Lucky for me, fight wins.
Summer Memories
Jagged, shattered, fragmented shards of memory swirled, and then coalesced in her mind. Those hands. Those hands close to her son’s throat.
How To Kill A Husband
Mom quit killing off husbands the year I turned ten. It was the same time that lazy Mr. Humphries from across the street went missing, and the police started digging up our backyard. Dad said that they even dug holes all around our cottage.
Stars In My Eyes
The magic of the moment when a child realizes that the planets and the stars are real, not just pictures in story books or drawings in a science text, can profoundly affect her understanding of other life experiences.
Haircuts and Cracks
Relentless nagging from a determined ten-year-old finally gets her a trip to the beauty parlour, wad of damp cash in hand, to have her long tresses cut shorter than a Peter-Pan Bob.
Oh Canada!
Making a new life in a new country can be amazing, wonderful, scary, and sometimes traumatizing, but how you meet and beat those challenges can define you as a person and make you stronger. New immigrants and their progeny did just that when coming to Canada in the fifties.
Running Away
Matilda and her tread belt of doom. She is a mean and unrelenting taskmaster. But when the roads are ice-covered, or so deep with mud that the runners would be sucked right off my feet, I plug her in and turn her on.
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