The Final Frame
In this smoky, hard-boiled tale of addiction, loyalty, and love, the author recounts the bond she shared with her maternal grandfather.
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Passion in Transit
An advertisement on the city bus catches Cassandra’s attention and gets her ruminating over her lackluster life. As she gazes out the window contemplating a failed relationship from her past, a stranger claims the empty seat beside her. His bizarre behaviours jar Cassandra out of her woe is me stupor and force her to make some surprising decisions.
Making Plans
Ginny arrives for her morning shift at the funeral home to find an old man and his grandson waiting at the front door with an unusual request. What follows turns out to be anything but an ordinary day for the unlikely trio.
“Making Plans” is part of the No Ordinary Day Anthology, a collection of stories from 27 Canadian writers built around the theme “from the ordinary to the extraordinary”. In these stories the reader can travel from the past to the future, to their own back yard through a multitude of genres exploring the many subtleties of storytelling. Poetry, flash fiction, and short tales are all included in this anthology created by the Writer’s Community of York Region (WCYR) and edited by Sheila Horne.
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