I failed to ask my own grandmother about her experiences growing up on the prairie after her parents came to Canada from Eastern/Central Europe. I read "Lesia's Dream" for one example at what life could have been like for her, so I was reading more for the "historical" part of historical fiction....
Logan always takes the easy way out. After a night of drinking and driving he wakes up to find he has been involved in a senseless car accident and is dead. With the help of his guide, Wade, and the spirit of his grandmother, he realizes he has taken the wrong exit he wasn't meant to die. His lif...
As I walk along the sidewalk to the emergency entrance, the low rumble of rush hour traffic and honking horns is familiar and reassuring. The spots are nothing. Nothing. Then an ambulance whines and my heart picks up speed. What if they are something? What if? I weave around a weary-looking docto...
My heart does a jumping-jack routine when I see the crowds on the sidewalk and the marquee blazing with lights. It reminds me of Broadway. Plastering a smile on my face, I join the people lining up to get in. At least tonight all I have to do is listen and blend with the crowd. But tomorrow… Don’...
What’s the big deal about waiting another day? I wonder after I get to the garage and see what job Ray has lined up for the afternoon. Maybe something will happen in twenty-four hours. Like a miracle. But I can’t live like this. I have to settle the car thing. Then I can put my energy into gettin...
If Lexi felt something when I touched her, Tom might too. But I couldn’t let fear stand in the way of being kind. Touching Tom felt right and natural. Since the accident, there’d been moments when my grief for Logan had almost choked me. Sometimes I’d been alone with it. Other times Mom had been ...
Cassidy MacLaughlin, Grade Four Science Project Are you sure that’s all there is?” Disappointed, I viewed the thin scattering of pictures on Pete’s kitchen table. There were eighteen images, and almost all of them were of Pete and Jason. It was enough to do the Mother’s Day craft for Pete’s mom b...