Founded in a perspective that speaks to the diversity of contexts and processes used across Canada, this work is nevertheless firmly grounded in theory, offering an in-depth analysis geared toward advanced study in community practice.This depth is further strengthened by the diversity of topics represented in this collective work: community work in various regions of the country exploring issues of poverty and environmental activism; community work with immigrants and refugees, and...

In this slightly spooky short story set on Christmas Eve, a boy sneaks out of bed hoping to catch Santa in the act of delivering gifts. To his dismay, he instead finds his mother kissing... someone.

A coffee shop employee finds a strange message spelled in spilled sugar. When the message is repeated several days in a row, she sets out to prove that Lee;'s bizarre explanation cannot be true.

Kassandra was kissed by a snake. Now she is kissing Apollo.The first kiss happened when she was only two. The flick of a forked tongue gave her the gift of foresight. The sink of fangs into her flesh took her arm away. Kassandra doesn't mourn the loss of her arm and it hasn't stopped her from becoming a competitive archer. The gift of foresight has allowed her to save the lives of friends and strangers.Now Kassandra is seventeen and Apollo is back. He wants compensation for...

A woman arrives home to find an innocent doll abandoned on her driveway. She expects the owner to return for their lost toy but finds the doll still with her the following morning, behaving in ways no doll should.

A trip to the mall to drop off a box of clothes for donation takes a turn when Trix stops to get her fortune from an antique toy fortune teller. Disregarding the fortune may lead to her demise.

This collection of short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles spans over a decade of writing. Most of the pieces contain a speculative element. All of them are figments of my imagination.

Mavis transfers to a school of the arts at the start of her junior year to boost her dance credits and make herself a more well-rounded and attractive applicant. She doesn't plan on landing the lead in Chicago. She doesn't plan on meeting a dark and dreamy boy.Challenged by Notre Dame to write a personal essay describing how she is incomplete, Mavis first thinks of her absent mother. Mavis is pushed by her best friend Fletch to go deeper, but can't see past the hole her mother left...

Caro is reluctant to tie her tenth knot. When she receives a slip of paper marked with a name she knows, she is forced to choose between the life she left behind and the life that has enveloped her.

Sixteen Short Romance Stories selected from Season One of Dirty Little Podcast. From contemporary, historical, and paranormal, to some tales that are out of this world, audiences are bound to find something to fall in love with.

The Handmaid's Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as its film and television adaptations, can be employed across different academic fields in high school, college and university classrooms. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and cultural contexts contribute to wide-ranging analytical strategies, ranging from religion and science to the role of journal...

A woman waits for her long estranged best friend next to the alien welcome sign in Roswell. She hopes for reconciliation, but instead finds the source of their estrangement is not what it seemed.