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dark pines in Prince Edward County
When I arrived at the cottage, the first thing I saw was a spire of shingles stretched above the trees. A turret of wood and wide sparkling windowpanes conspired to create a woodland castle. Not so much a cottage, then. I left my life in Toronto behind at the train station and I breathed my…
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Review of The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns
The Vet’s Daughter by Barbara Comyns is a quick, smart, and rather dark story about corrupted powers seeking to take advantage of the natural and innocent. The 200-page novel is narrated by Alice Rowlands, a young girl and veterinarian’s daughter living in Edwardian London. After the death of her mother, the abuse Alice endures in…
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Beach Day 🐚
Winter in media is a calm, quiet thing. Snowfall softens. Cold air chills and stills. Scarves, mittens, fireplaces, cinnamon. Visions of somewhere warm and woolen and safe. I spend winter locked up like a dead fish in an icebox. When I was a kid, I came home from school to play pond hockey in the…
all my marbles 