Evangéline
In my forthcoming novel, Nazaire Poulin, the protagonist thinks of his deceased spouse, Victoria Vachon and doesn’t remember the lines to this song that she… Read More »Evangéline
Smokers in the Rocky Mountains
The prospectors walked, slipping over mossy cover. Lazy black slugs thicker than a hog-eye slithered across leaves, dropping sperm in their shadows. On the underside… Read More »Smokers in the Rocky Mountains
La Survivance (English version)
LA SURVIVANCE – SURVIVING From the 1860s through to the 1960s, recruiters from shoe mills, paper mills, cotton and linen mills throughout the New England… Read More »La Survivance (English version)
Tait Negg
Nazaire sat at the bar of the Golden Flats Hotel in Granville. He ordered a whiskey, drank up, and then asked for Tait by name.… Read More »Tait Negg
The Princess May
In August of 1910, after brothers Nazaire and Raoul Poulin had returned home to Quebec, and with a long and lonely winter approaching, Romeo… Read More »The Princess May
Louis and Joe
“Me, I got a working team, Louis, and Joe, they’re geldings and black, so black you can see the slightest bit of dirt on them.”… Read More »Louis and Joe
Discord
“What’s going on? Are you attached to this woman?” “No.” Nazaire sat on his cot, putting on his socks and pants. “How’s it going to… Read More »Discord
The Alligator of Ignace
Everywhere the ghost town held remnants from gone-by gold mines and quarries. Abandoned bits of scaffolding sat half-built, resembling bones of a skinned whale. One… Read More »The Alligator of Ignace
Free Farms for the Million
Broadsides like this one were distributed all over the Prairies of Canada. There was a series of at least four broadsides that promoted immigrant… Read More »Free Farms for the Million
The Snowburst
They maneuvered around the body with their feet fighting the snow for balance. Nazaire grabbed the inside of the elbow and pulled down, revealing a… Read More »The Snowburst