In the fall of 2015, my husband Trevor and I were driving east on the 401, with our eight-year-old son Oliver in the back seat, to visit relatives in the Ottawa Valley. “Let’s take a different way,” Trevor said. “I want to show you something.”
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Excerpt of Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive by John Knight
Some time ago I read a short story by Roald Dahl called “Royal Jelly.” It’s the tale of a father desperately searching for ways to save his malnourished infant daughter who refuses her mother’s milk. This man is an apiarist, and while looking for answers, he picks up the latest article on royal jelly—the microbial mix that honeybees feed to their larva when they want to raise a new queen.
Open Letter by Ngozi Amadi (Annebelle Thomas)
At one gathering, a Storyteller told me, “I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from,” or something to that effect. What better way to inspire you to share your stories, than to share a bit of mine?
Excerpt from Trouble in Utopia by Maddy Crowell at Slate.com
We drove in silence for 20 minutes down East Coast Road, a highway jammed with motorbikes, passing brightly colored tea and samosa stalls. In a sharp, 90-degree turn, the taxi lurched off the highway onto an unmarked dirt road where a wall of leafy trees brought the chaos and the color to a jolting stop. And suddenly, we weren’t in India anymore.
Excerpt from Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
I had seen the house on television. I had never walked on a marble floor before, which was like walking on a piece of ice, but I had seen it.
Excerpt from The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
The works of Philip Roth have caused a lot of controversy, but it would be hard to deny that the following excerpt from his novel The Ghost Writer is a very detailed and accurate description of the writing process...
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