I was born at the Marston Green Maternity Hospital, Birmingham, England, on August 19, 1951. Along with so many other children, my birth promised a more peaceful world and the chance at family life and prosperity. England was in the midst of the post-war economic boom that promised steady employment and prosperity to those willing …
I suspect that I am having a heart attack the moment that I leave the ice after a hard shift. We are defending the blue-line in a one-goal game. My breath is shallow, and I am pulling breaths through a clamping pain below my sternum. It doesn’t feel like indigestion; the pain doesn’t move. I …
The place was all wrong from the start. You need to know that. To begin with, it was precisely the kind of place I vowed to never live in. In my teens, I declared, “I don’t want to live in the suburbs, married with 2.1 children and driving a Volvo.” To be fair, the Volvo …
His delivers done, George pulled out of Dryden on the Trans-Canada highway headed west and there on the shoulder of the road was a young man thumbing a ride. You expected to see young people on the highway in summer, but not in the near winter weather of November, and not at 8 o’clock at …
I was surprised to hear that they had completed the crossing. Well nearly. The point is, I hadn’t learned until they were well on their way that they were going. Or at least that Dan was going with him. I was there when Dan helped load the van with everything Mark owned. I stayed on …
Daniel sat in a summer chair propped against the wall, his face partially in the shadow of the eave of a row of townhouses and he saw them coming; their faces contorted in jeers and taunts. His body tensed and before he could restrain himself, he let out a groan. ” Hey limey, you think …
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not reality. – Erwin Schrödinger Jordan stood looking over the falls. Ten feet below he saw his canoe broken and swirling in the waters of the Temagami River. The caned seat bobbed into view, along with the splintered gunwale and the upturned hull. His …
A Stranger takes a journey of a lifetime. “We can take you sir. Although the passage will not be easy”, the man said across the tavern table. Melvin was poised now and listening. Part of his mind tracing how he arrived here on the frontier with his brother. If only he could see him again; …