Month: December 2013

The three bears, all snugly sleeping in their beds, were startled by the sound of a voice blaring out over a bullhorn. “Rise and shine, bears!” yelled the voice. Papa Bear looked out the window and saw a tiny sprig of a girl, no more than 4 feet tall, staring haughtily up at their window. … Read more

It was a warm and humid summer’s day in the late 1980s on a back road in rural New Brunswick. A gentle breeze caressed the trees, waggling their leaves, exposing first their paler undersides and then their darker tops, a thousand leaves blinking ephemeral semaphore to the world. The air was alive with insect song … Read more

Maximus Cloydparse was never at a loss for words. His verbal wittery came easily to him, even as a young student in a small one-room schoolhouse. When the teacher realized he had no clue what the answer to the equation on the chalkboard was, she had rhetorically exclaimed; “Maximus, where were YOU when the lights … Read more