When I was seven or eight years old, I remember there was much talk of a mysterious light that many in our neighbourhood reported having seen. “It was hovering near that pond, across the field from your house,” a neighbour told my father.
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The morning sun crested the horizon casting brilliance on the world below. A soft breeze brushed the maples, their large green masts shuddered high above, whispering. Dawn’s lingering chill stubbornly endured the increasing heat. The contrast of warmth and goosebumps only a summer morning could inspire.
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Riptides is a collection of 23 stories by Prince Edward Island writers published by Acorn Press in 2012. If there is a theme to this collection it is that every writer resides in Prince Edward Island and that the editor is the Professor of Canadian and English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Prince Edward Island. No reference is made to previous anthologies of PEI writing in recent times. It is said in the Introduction that the world seems to believe the only writing of consequence from PEI has come from the hands of Lucy Maud Montgomery. This volume attempts to show that other fiction from new pens should also warrant a place in the sun. In this regard Riptides succeeds as a modern statement of new fiction. Not everyone will like every story. But every story leaves the reader thinking: is there more to this story that I might have missed?
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