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The Shadow of Mr. Down
Get PDFThe narrator experiences first-hand the infamous teacher Mr. Down, who doesn\u27t exactly teach but nevertheless commands the room with his over-the-top personality and rhetorical force. 
Picking up the pieces of my father’s rage
Get PDFSorting through baby photos, I came across one that most would regard as happy. My grandmother apparently did. I am not as sure. At around age sixty, I decided to interrogate my life and began investigating the violence and abuse of my childhood, breaking family rules about things we knew were not supposed to be mentioned
Mother Inferior
Get PDFI gave myself my own joking moniker: the Mother Inferior.
As the years passed, I began to write a novel set in a fictionalized version of the Florentine convent where we once stayed. It, too, has twin beds and a Mother Superior fierce enough to make calls for more than a dozen years if need be. But unlike me, my protagonist travels alone. There is no risk of two people in one twin bed in this story
Remembering rightly: Our experience of the Sixties Scoop
Get PDFWe want to tell the story of how our mother/daughter relationship was affected by the Sixties Scoop of Indigenous children in Canada. We will each speak in our own unique voice, Ingrid’s words written in italics and Lydia’s in roman. Our memories are colored by the present and the past, by what we are learning now and what we knew then. In all of this we are attempting to “remember rightly” what happened then and what is happening now
This Burning House
Get PDFThis story is written as a science-fiction letter to the future. What is the worst case scenario if everything goes perfectly well
