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Table of Contents
Volume 21, Number 123, October/November 2018

STORIES
SHORT STORY, POETRY AND BLACK & WHITE LINE ART CONTEST - 2018 WINNERS: TRUE STORIES: THE RUTH ZAVITZ PRIZE The Advocates by Nesta Primeau		1
THE R&R PRINTING PRIZE - First Honourable Mention A Mission in Ottawa by Rosemary L. Rigsby		3
THE ALVIN ENS PRIZE - Second Honourable Mention Springtime Stress by Donna Quick		4
CREATIVE NON-FICTION: THE SUSANNA VOTH WIEBE PRIZE Longing for Home by Norma Janzen		6
THE PETER JOYCE PRIZE - First Honourable Mention Baba by Dawn Thompson		9
THE ALVIN ENS PRIZE - Second Honourable Mention Old Memories, Old Regrets by Donna Quick		10
FICTION: THE JEANNIE PARSONS PRIZE All In the Family by Donna Quick		12
THE R&R PRINTING PRIZE - First Honourable Mention The Maiden Voyage of the SS Kaslo by Elaine Durst		15
THE ALVIN ENS PRIZE - Second Honourable Mention Naomi’s Angel by Norma Linder		18
POETRY- RHYMING: THE MARJORIE MCINTOSH PRIZE THE PETER JOYCE PRIZE - First Honourable Mention Procrastination by Jean Spicer O’Hearn		21
THE ALVIN ENS PRIZE - Second Honourable Mention There Ain’t No Pill for Lonely by Glenn Lloyd		22
POETRY- NON-RHYMING: THE MARJORIE MCINTOSH PRIZE THE PETER JOYCE PRIZE - First Honourable Mention Sharon by Sally Quon		23
THE ALVIN ENS PRIZE - Second Honourable Mention Sense by Bryan Schmidt	Featured Poem	24
LEST WE FORGET: THE ELLIS GUNTER/JON KRAFCHEK PRIZE A Different Kind of War Story by Marcia Lee Laycock		25
HALLOWEEN
A Halloween Costume by Elaine Durst		26
The Interview by Loreena Lee		28
STORIES
October by Loreen Adams-Haldenby		31
Close Encounters of the Fort Kind by David Einhorn		31
A Natural History of the World by Lorna Wilson		33
One Potato More by Carol D. Loewen		35
The Great Grey Hound No Longer Runs by Harold Studholme		36
Children’s Story: My Big Adventure by Tiger the Dog (Gwen and Mavis Legg)		37
Immigration by E.R. Nicodemus	Featured Story	38
The Monkey by Gary E. Miller		39
The Brother We Never Knew by Susanna Voth Wiebe		39
AKA Balls III - Last of the Sextet by Peter C. Joyce		40
Children’s Story: The Falling Leaves of Autumn by Loreen Adams-Haldenby		42
Fifty-One Years An Apprentice submitted by Joanne Fehr		43
Rub-A-Dub-Dub by Fay Herridge		48
Internet Technology - The Whole World at Your Fingertips by Surjit Singh Flora		49
Draino by Marcel Gervais		50
On Huron’s Shore by James Deahl		52
Restoring a 1963 Chevy II Model 400 Station Wagon by Ed Janzen		54
POETRY
Management by Glenn Lloyd		57
Looking Back, Pills, Each Night and O-U-T by Glenn Lloyd		58
If by Glenn Lloyd		60
The Great Depression by Stella Preda		60
Only Memories and Red Poppies by Stella Preda		61
Full Circle by Stella Preda		62
Like The Seagull by Fay Herridge		62
Poor Little Fish and The Happy Little Brook by Fay Herridge		63
In the Dark, Garden Farewell 2011 and Burning Down Summer by Loreena Lee		64
Knees Indeed by Dianne J. Ferris		65
5TH STORY ENDING CONTEST
Ending for Puppy Love by Deborah Eker		65
Doggie Devotion by Peter C. Joyce		66
A Love Returned by E.R. Nicodemus		67
Puppy Love Ending by Lorraine Feldberg		68
COLUMNS
Bruno’s Column by Bruno Penner		68
From Peter’s Pen by Peter C. Joyce		69
Marie’s Musings by Marie Minaker		69
BOOK REVIEW: Out of Place by Kate Rogers		70
6TH STORY ENDING CONTEST Finders Keepers? by Gary E. Miller		72
Editor’s Postscript		73
Story Ending Contest		Back Cover