Myrtle McBride sat in her rocking chair on the porch watching the children play in the front yard. She tried to move her old body to rock the new chair back and forth, but she couldn’t get it to budge. “Celia, can you get this gizmo to rock? Push the button or whatever.” Little Celia […]
This is the fifth in a series of journal entries (read the first one) made by the main character in Sugar Scars, written during the weeks just before the events in the novel. I’m about to write the most intrinsically obvious sentence ever written. I suppose it’s a tautology (look it up). I’m not […]
This is the fourth in a series of journal entries (read the first one) made by the main character in Sugar Scars, written during the weeks just before the events in the novel. I just put duct tape on my front door and windows. Not to actually seal the house from the airborne virus. […]
Sarah stood over the frail body of her comatose son. She had lost her daughter Emily to the sugar sickness two years ago and now it had come for Billy. With Emily they had been in a private room in Toronto General Hospital. They had money then. But that was all gone now. Her husband, […]
This is the third in a series of journal entries (read the first one) made by the main character in Sugar Scars, written during the weeks just before the events in the novel. The government has gone from saying “precautionary measures” to “preparatory measures”. The virus hit this hemisphere yesterday in Alaska. It can’t […]
This is the second in a series of journal entries (read the first one) made by the main character in Sugar Scars, written during the weeks just before the events in the novel. Okay, it’s a virus. That much is obvious now. China is denying it, but China would deny that the sky is […]
This is the first in a series of journal entries made by the main character in Sugar Scars, written during the weeks just before the events in the novel. You see a lot of videos on YouTube or Facebook that are supposed to make you outraged or horrified or scared. But after a while […]
Last year, in a fit of a parental stupidity, we got our children a puppy. We had a dog already, but our five-year-old had never had the experience of a puppy and he was at a time in his life where we thought it would be good for him. There is a resounding principal that […]
I went to Starbucks today! It was awesome!! I got a grande mocha latte frappa coffeechino!!!!!!!! We’ve all seen these types of posts/emails/texts. Excessive exclamation points seems to be more and more common. I am not the type of person who normally complains about proper grammar and punctuation. Language changes with time. The only reasonable […]