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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

Marilyn’s 8-year old son Buster was inconsolable. He’d been saying for weeks that his snowman was alive, and she had humoured him. But this morning, they had found the door to the house wide open. The snowman’s scarf, carrot nose and button eyes strewn up the steps leading upstairs, and his top hat upside down … Read more