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I'm a fiction writer, travel writer, columnist, magazine features writer, web contributor and playwright. I also take photos to accompany stories and for fun, I'm a part time university instructor and I manage the Osprey Arts Centre and the Shelburne County Arts Council.  I'm a member of Writers in the Schools, the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia, the Travel Media Association of Canada and the Canadian Freelance Union. Check out the details inside...

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Excerpt from Holidays


"Puppy Luv"
  
      Deirdre started it. She gave Braden a candy heart (I M YOURS). We all had candy hearts because Ms. English gave them to us. She went to the dollar store and bought a whole bag of them. She gives us stuff. She’s nice. She’s rich because she’s a teacher. Sometimes she’s mean, but only to the boys because they sass. She gave each one of us ten to give out to our friends. We had to buy our own cards. She bought cinnamon hearts too and decorations.She has a boyfriend.
     It wasn’t like Deirdre didn’t know what it said. She read all of hers before. She put them all out on her desk in a row. She picked them up one at a time off her desk and she held them out in front of her and she read them out loud. Everybody saw her do it. Some people even told her to shut up because they couldn’t read their own with her doing that.
     We made mailboxes. I coloured mine (red hearts). Braden drew old-fashioned guns and swords all over his and laser guns too. Ms. English didn’t say anything. She’s so nice. She let us go to the bathroom so we drop a card or a candy heart or a cinnamon heart into someone’s bag on the way. Ms. English would say yes Shaun or Brittany or Amad or Shauntay you may go to the bathroom and she would smile and wink. 
     I gave all ten of mine out to my friends (girls). I had BE MINE and I ♥ U and TRU LUV and TXT ME and I ate KISS ME because I couldn’t even give that one to a girl All the boys gave theirs to girls and all the girls gave theirs to girls so the boys
didn’t get any almost and it wasn’t fair because they like candy as much as everybody else.