acknow-           
ledgements

Thanks, with love, to Cheryl, for bringing these stories together, to Nora and Jess for their acumen and support, to Willy and James.

Thanks, also with love, to Tom and Martha Keeping for taking care of me when I lived in Belleoram, to their children Tommy and Estella, to William May Sr., Sarah May, William Jr.

Thanks to James Langer, editor, and to everyone at Breakwater: Rebecca Rose, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Rhonda Molloy.

Thanks to Martha Webb, of Anne McDermid Agency, in Toronto.

Thank you: The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, subTerrain, Event, Prism International, and the Journey Prize Anthology, in which some of these stories first appeared.