In the greeting hall of Vancouver’s Canada Place cruise ship terminal, twenty-nine-year-old Amy Sinclair tapped her toes like an Irish step dancer in training. More […]
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Dissonance (S)
“What have you brought me?” Ella’s grin and inability to stand still told me she was excited by her find. I would always congratulate her […]
Happy Birthday, Sis
“Citizen Ralph, we must go to the guillotine. Today, there are spry and energetic – if somewhat aged – bourgeois, my favourite. And we must […]
Graceland (S)
Why were the care aides whispering about him when he lay on his motorized bed not five feet away? Just because he didn’t understand what […]
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Wed, Nov 29, 1911
As someone anxious about the near-future, I find it odd that my husband is developing an addiction to Ancestry.com. However, many people are obsessed with […]
Blood Memories: The Prequel
“From: Doctor John Forbes H.M.S. Rossamond Havana, 16th February 1854 My Dearest Anne, My last letter to you left here yesterday morning in the American […]
Who will save us from ourselves? (S)
Seen from the door of the upscale cafe, three women sat frozen in a ‘tableau vivant’. Heads together, hands clenched in their laps, only their […]
Brain Drain (S)
I don’t know how I got myself lost. I’d driven there with no problems the week before. OK, I had a GPS telling me where […]