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Table of Contents
Volume 21, Number 120, April/May 2018

STORIES
An Embarrassing Incident by Kay Parley		1
Watching Eagles by Betty Rockwell		1
Healing Power of Pets by Norma West Linder		2
Lucy, Alias Lucifer by Marilyn Scoville		3
A Lesson from Agnes by Ruth Scoullar		3
Unrequested Anonymity by Bruno Penner		5
The Little Bowl Which Was Yellow by E.R. Nicodemus		5
Her by Melissa Armstrong		6
How The Bideford Parsonage Museum Came To Be by Jane Trowsdale		7
Families Had “Hired Girls” by Robert J.Patmore		9
My Win-Win Haircut by Valerie Fletcher Adolph		10
Ireland by Marilyn Scoville		10
New Beginnings by Shirley Callaghan		12
Rumours! by Marilyn Scoville		13
Echoes of the Future by Eileen M. Harris		14
Two Items by Lorna Wilson		17
POETRY
Nature’s Treasures and It Ain’t Fun by Glenn Lloyd		18
How Do You Say Goodbye by Glenn Lloyd		19
February Blooming by Norma West Linder		19
Sugar Maple and Gingerbread House by Norma West Linder		20
The Morning Visitation by Wendy Welk	Featured Poem	21
The Weight of the Ink by Bob Boulton		22
The Marriage by Lorna Wilson		22
Affirmation of Life and Flowering Plants by Lorna Wilson		23
Words by Cora Goodyear		23
Marriage by Lorna Wilson		24
Nature by Glenn Lloyd		24
Confronting the Idea of the Good on a Rainy Night in Early May by James Deahl		25
How Many Boxes Can There Be by Glenn Lloyd		25
FICTION
The Ring by Marlene Ritchie	Featured Story	26
The Library by Helen Brown		29
Uninvited Guests by Jean Spicer O’Hearn		30
Getting the Hard Struggle Back by Lin Johns		32
A Lesson at Timmy’s by Margo Jamieson		36
One Day at a Time by Ruth Zavitz		37
Coincidence by Margo Prentice		41
MORE STORIES
The Joker by Gary E. Miller		43
Puntzi Lake Tragedy by Elaine Durst		44
Easters of My Childhood by Susanna Voth Wiebe		45
The Cat and the Future by Lorna Wilson		46
Aground On the Yukon River by Ronald A. Barnett		46
Remembering My Toronto by Hal Studholme		48
Boom Town - Elliot Lake by Robert Palm		49
Out of the Fog - Into Life by William S. Peckham		49
The Lady of High Degree by Loreen Haldenby		50
Facets of Charity by Hilda J. Born		52
Incentive by Kay Parley		52
Land of Living Skies by Alvin G. Ens		53
Oh, Those Green Roots Back Home by Cindy Dean-Morrison		53
It’s A Riot by Nesta Primeau		55
How Did We Know by Merilyn Gorrigan		56
The Super Naturals by Lois Kromhoff		59
Fragments of Conversation by Alan MacLeod		61
COLUMNS
Bruno’s Column by Bruno Penner		63
From Peter’s Pen by Peter C. Joyce		64
Marie’s Musings by Marie Minaker		64
2ND STORY ENDING CONTEST
Continuation of “The Cliff” by Gisela Woldenga		65
I Must’ve Been... by Nic Nicodemus		65
Ending to “The Cliff” by Deborah Eker		66
... “The Cliff” by Linda Payne		66
Cliffhanger by Peter C. Joyce		67
“The Cliff” Short Story Ending by Jean Spicer O’Hearn		67
BOOK REVIEW
Five Nights in a Turtle by Rosemary Rigsby		68
LEST WE FORGET
The First Day of Winter by James Deahl		69
3RD STORY ENDING CONTEST
A Marquette by Ed Janzen		71
Editor’s Postscript		72
2018 Contest Announcement		73
Bed & Breakfast Inns, Story Ending Contest		Back Cover