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*Winner in the Chanticleer Humour & Satire Awards*"I love this book." Robin InceEver wondered what to do with a squab if you find one?Would you like to visit the steakhouse on Halley's comet?Are eggs sentient?What is life?This collection of surreal stories will answer those questions, and many more.***Find out why Northern Soul compared this book to both Viz magazine and Jane Austen ... ... Read more

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*Winner in the Chanticleer Humour & Satire Awards*"I love this book." Robin InceEver wondered what to do with a squab if you find one?Would you like to visit the steakhouse on Halley's comet?Are eggs sentient?What is life?This collection of surreal stories will answer those questions, and many more.***Find out why Northern Soul compared this book to both Viz magazine and Jane Austen ...
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Ever wondered what to do with a squab if you find one?Would you like to visit the steakhouse on Halley’s comet?Are eggs sentient?What is life?This collection of surreal stories will answer those questions, and many more.(tw: this is a work of occasionally dark or 'close-to-the-bone' satirical humour, commenting on how humans treat themselves, each other - and other creatures. It also often has ... Read more

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Ever wondered what to do with a squab if you find one?Would you like to visit the steakhouse on Halley’s comet?Are eggs sentient?What is life?This collection of surreal stories will answer those questions, and many more.(tw: this is a work of occasionally dark or 'close-to-the-bone' satirical humour, commenting on how humans treat themselves, each other - and other creatures. It also often has
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Creative Musings 2024

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by John W Partington, George F. Barry, Zena Besner, Debbie Eastop, Kurt Haller, Dave Maeck, I.S. Mindak, Fiona Paterson, Dennis Phillips, Amanda Taillon, J.G. Brin, Evelyn Kaye Brooks, Barry Scott Campbell, Mairi Egan, Rob Fitzel, Lori Holloway, Allan McCarville, Mateo Mendez Yepes, John C. Nash, Vera Parkinson, Thom Whalen ...

Series Book 8 - SCWG Creative Musings
The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday evening at the Stittsville branch to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write ... Read more

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The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday evening at the Stittsville branch to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write
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by John W Partington, Susie Loranger, Reva Atkinson, Julie Band, Dominique Boily, Anne-Marie Dallaire-Sarazen, John W. Egan, Patricia Elkins, Monika Jain, Vivien Masseau Taylor, Allan McCarville, John C. Nash, Michele Partridge, Joan Blake, Hero van Harten ...

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A psychologist, a professor, a police officer, a nurse, a farmer, a midwife, a soldier, an engineer, a lawyer, an accountant, and a handful of public servants all walk into the public library. It sounds like the opening of a long-winded joke. It is, in fact, just a regular Thursday in Stittsville. The Stittsville Creative Writing Group has been meeting weekly for 13 years to share our creative ... Read more

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Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in ... Read more

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Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in
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“Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop, Under My Thumb Tattoos, as a reminder.Chris and his brothers were as wild as the wind, in their house among the fields of Alliston, Ontario, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked, ... Read more

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“Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop, Under My Thumb Tattoos, as a reminder.Chris and his brothers were as wild as the wind, in their house among the fields of Alliston, Ontario, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked,
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