The Heart In Winter

The Heart In Winter

On Wyoming Street in the evening a patent Irish stumbled by, some crazy old meathead in a motley of rags and filthy buck-skin, wild tufts of hair sticking out the ears, the eyes burning now like hot stars, now clamped shut in a kind of ecstasy, and he lurched and...
The best fish pie recipe in the world

The best fish pie recipe in the world

I actually worry that the title undersells how good this fish pie recipe is! For context, fish pie is one of my favourite dishes. I have undertaken a lengthy quest trying different recipes to compare and contrast. Including trying the hybrids of other folks who have...
The Shipping News

The Shipping News

“If he’d gone on with the others he’d likely have gone into a miserable life. You ask me, Canada was built on the slave labor of those poor Home children, worked to the bone, treated like dirt, half starved and crazed with lonesomeness. See, my father kept in touch...
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

Having always imagined that they would have children one day, they decide, four years into their marriage, to stop preventing the possibility. After seven months they get the news beside the bathroom sink, in the form of a faint blue line within a cotton-backed...