Many thanks to all those who helped me create this book: Anne Budgell, Gail Collins, Tom Crothers, Jessica Grant, Ed Kavanagh, Ali Kazimi, Christine Klein-Lataud, Christina Parker, Leslie Vyrenhoek, my Piper’s Frith mentors, and to my husband Peter, my sister Elinor, my cousin Helen and all my wonderful friends for their love and support over the years.
Earlier versions of the following stories were published: “Too Unspeakable for Words” in The Newfoundland Quarterly, December, 1987. “Fairy-led” in Canadian Fiction Magazine, Spring, 1991. “The One I Got” (as “Holy Matrimony”) in The Antigonish Review, no. 91, 1992. “Learning to Tango” in The Antigonish Review, no. 96, 1994. “The Sweetest Meadows” in The Antigonish Review, no. 113, 1998. “La Fachada” in The Antigonish Review, no. 175, 2013.