Eyes closed, I could sense the crowd around me, players and spectators, who had witnessed the appalling spectacle. And when I collapsed in my turn, I heard the howling of wolves bearing down on me from every direction, ripping me apart with their sharp teeth and feeding on my carcass.
Tommy, my friend, my dear friend… What happened to us? I’ve looked everywhere, reaching out in every direction, but I can’t find any answers. I can’t feel anything at all. Everything’s dark.
The autopsy revealed an unbelievably high level of anabolic steroids in his body. That was why his weakened heart could not withstand the impact.
Vincent Fradette was arrested.
And as for me, I’ll never play hockey ever again.
Bibliography
AVAILABLE FROM BARAKA BOOKS
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FICTION
Break Away 1, Jessie on My Mind
by Sylvain Hotte
(translated by Casey Roberts)
I Hate Hockey by François Barcelo
(Translated by Peter McCambridge)
Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies,
Short Stories by Nick Fonda
NONFICTION
Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes
Wilhelm Weike’s Arctic Journal and Letters
by Bernd Gieseking and Ludger Müller-Wille
(Translated by William Barr)
Soldiers for Sale, German “Mercenaries”
with the British in Canada
during the American Revolution (1776-83)
by Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media,
The Return of the Nigger Breakers by Ishmael Reed
A People’s History of Quebec
by Jacques Lacoursière & Robin Philpot
America’s Gift, What the World Owes to the Americas and Their First Inhabitants
by Käthe Roth and Denis Vaugeois
The Question of Separatism, Quebec
and the Struggle over Sovereignty
by Jane Jacobs
An Independent Quebec, The Past, the Present and the Future
by Jacques Parizeau
(Translated by Robin Philpot)
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