Inland Passage
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Dying is gathering up the pieces, the bright and the dark, fitting them together, puzzling out the true picture, seeing it at last. Ella couldn’t any longer see. There was no one there to help her.
“Isn’t anyone going to show me how? Isn’t anyone going to teach me?”
The last sentence Ella Carr wrote might have been the title for her next book, “Death is not that Kind of Lover,” for it modified the truth, that death is no lover at all, as she had always been able to in fiction, as she had not managed to in life.
About the Author
Jane Rule (1931–2007) was the author of several novels and essay collections, including the groundbreaking lesbian love story Desert of the Heart (1964), which was made into the feature film Desert Hearts. She was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2007. Born in New Jersey, Rule moved to Canada in 1956, and lived on Galiano Island, British Columbia, until her death at the age of seventy-six.
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“A Chair of George” under the title “A Delicate Balance” was first published by Chatelaine, as were “Seaweed and Song,” “A Migrant Christmas,” and “Joy.” CBC’s Anthology has broadcast “You Cannot Judge a Pumpkin by the Smile Upon its Face,” “Blessed Are the Dead,” and “The Pruning of the Apple Trees.” “Slogans” appeared in the Women and Words anthology. “The End of Summer” appeared in the English magazine, Aquarius. All the other stories in this volume appear for the first time.
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