Poetry

Gathering Driftwood

Elberta, Michigan We begin in the emerald dark forest. My grandmother’s cottage hidden, Baba Yaga cabin dwarfed by giant maples, ancient pines trembling aspen.  We…

Fiction

Baby Can’t Fly

Mr. Tony squeezed Nick's shoulders until the jackhammer stopped. "There's a man in a suit looking for you. You got five minutes, kid."  Sprinting across…

Book Reviews / Nonfiction

Lakes, Cottages, Manoomin, and Encroachment – A Book Review of Cottagers and Indians

Presently, the Kawartha Lakes area, along with Muskoka, is Ontario’s top cottage country. A few decades ago, even before the pandemic-fueled cottagecore craze, owning a…

Photography

Saginaw Bay

  These photographs were taken in the summer of 2013 on a camping trip in Bay County, Michigan. The shoreside wildlife was abundant, from the…

Book Reviews / First Friday Series / Nonfiction

Ghosts on the Living Land

Passing Through a Prairie Country Dennis E. Staples Counterpoint Press One of the most persistent tropes in horror is that of the “Indian burial ground”…

Narrative Map Project

Teeth

It was mid-June, and the annual army of spindly Canadian Soldiers had come to clog up the screen windows of every lake-front home. I, too,…