Win Szczedziwoj, a man known for photographing subjects in the rain, is on a vacation. Just him, his camera, his canoe, and a small, dark lake well away from civilization.That solitude comes to an end when his fishing line drags up a body from the lake. It looks like the usual canoeing accident, but the police suspect murder, and Win is suspect number one (I mean, what are the chances of actually snagging a body with a fishing line?)But Win wants to know why the dead guy was ...

Poems for when the words stop and you start leaving footprints in the ashes.

The first story starts, "Hubby?" she said. "I'm sliding off the mattress again. And something's biting me on the neck."The second beginsIt was getting on past midnight, the wind had picked up, shaking the tent, and I knew I'd have to kill the guy in the next sleeping bag.If you've ever shared a pup tent with your wife or a friend, you'll recognize the situations in these two camping stories.

This little nature guide describes, with humor, a small section of the Grand River Trail near Kitchener, Ontario, in Autumn.

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Inspector Ian McFergus had not been satisfied; not in the least satisfied. He had inspected Marley's body using all the due processes and checklists upon which the polic...

Did you ever want to write a novel, or even a novella, but the generation of a viable plot and the creation of characters and motives seem like an insurmountable task? Well, this little set of instructions can be an invaluable start. It analyzes the basics of Agatha Christie's novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first Hercule Poirot novel, which now in public domain), and shows how you and amend, tweak, or change her characters, her overall plot, and the basic plot twist to create ...

Amundi, jester to Denmark's King Claudius, has a slew of problems. Just when tensions at their maximum because of an imminent threat of invasion by Norwegians, Prince Hamlet returns to Elsinore Castle, more than a little upset that his mother has married her brother-in-law. It's a rough time to be a jester. Worse yet, Amundi has his own problems, particularly a love affair that seems certain to land him in the torture room. In spite of that, he does his best to stay alive in a milieu in wh...

"Things as they are," said poet Wallace Stevens in a poem called, "The Man With the Blue Guitar" (1937), "are changed upon the blue guitar." This is a book of changes. Changes to life, love, and our universe. Changes in war, religion, and truth. And in every one, a blue guitar is present, for the blue guitar is the symbol of changes. Good changes, bad changes, and just changes. Written in rhyme, the short poems in this book inspire both thought and laughter.

Tony just wants to write another travel guide for canoeists. His plans to head into Massasauga Provincial Park alone begin to unravel at the dock when a good-looking woman talks him into taking her with him.He doesn't know about the hungry bear at the campsite, or the man with the rifle and the guy with the B-52 determined to interrupt his plans.

If you want good poems, all of which they can read in one TV commercial break Lenny offers ten really short ones. For people who know that good things come in small packages.

There are a lot of wonderful songs to which the happy couple can dance at their wedding reception, but sometimes a wedding party will want something less overused, or an additional song or two for an additional dance or two. This little book of lyrics provides some new songs, sung to traditional tunes such as "Green Grow the Lilacs".The book contains the lyrics, and gives you information on how to get the music.

These 18 poems express a love for canoeing at a season when canoeing's barely possible. I look out the window and the breaking away of frozen waters stirs my heart. Then, finally, the first excursions into river and lake.