This collection of short stories, based on imagined lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, drops May 1 (that’s tomorrow!)
I’ve lived in St. Catharines since summer of 2023, having left my beloved Halifax, Nova Scotia because my living situation there had become untenable and I simply could not afford the market-value rents of the few rental units available in the city. My sister came to my rescue and offered me a home in St. Catharines. I settled in and chose to learn my new city and to love it.
St. Catharines is a lovely city of trees, beautiful gardens and vibrant, engaged and active people. It has a well developed and varied domestic architecture infinitely pleasing to this former practitioner of that art/technology – who can’t, by the way, resist speculating about what might go on within those brick or stucco walls – and feels compelled to commit those speculations to print.
This book of stories (the first of several, I think) is based on a combination of observations and imaginings of the culture and inspired by people I’ve come to know and appreciate.
I hope you will enjoy them.
Canadian Stories 