The Travelling Detective: Boxed Set

by Joan Donaldson-Yarmey

  “When you were little you used to see colours and shapes and then you would tell me about the strange people you had met and what they had told you. I took you to a doctor who told me these were called silent migraines or migraine auras without the headache. When you turned five they quit. Maybe you should go see your doctor about them if they have returned.”

  I am relieved. I have an explanation for them. I guess I didn’t have to worry about being thought of as crazy by Kat Mac or the rest of the class.

  But even if Mikk and Gwin are not real aliens from another planet and even if my story is all fiction, everything has worked out the way the Angel cards said it would. I had my meeting with the publisher and Kat Mac surprised me by attending. She told him how great she thought my manuscript was and the publisher agreed right there to read it. I gave him the hard copy I had brought with me. Since then I’ve been spending my time visualizing the front cover, writing up my bio, and picturing my book on a shelf in a book store: Crybaby by Lisa Zhang.

  Kat Mac and I are going together to the party tonight to celebrate, both the good news about my manuscript and our meeting.

  The End

  About The Author

  Joan was born in New Westminster, B.C. and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. She has worked as a bartender, hotel maid, cashier, bank teller, bookkeeper, printing press operator, meat wrapper, gold prospector, warehouse shipper, house renovator and nursing attendant. During that time she raised two children and helped raise three step-children. She has had travel and historical articles published in magazines. Between 1990 and 2000 she researched and wrote seven Backroads Series books about Alberta, B.C., the Yukon and Alaska that were published by Lone Pine Publishing in Edmonton, AB.

  Joan love change and has moved over thirty times in her life living on acreages and farms and in small towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. She now lives on an acreage in the Port Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island with her husband, five cats and four chickens. She currently works in a group home doing one-on-one support with a mentally and physically challenged man.

  Joan belongs to the Crime Writers of Canada, the International Association of Crime Writers/North American Branch, the Vancouver International Writers Festival, the Writers Guild of Alberta, the Federation of B.C. Writers, and the Port Alberni Arts Council. Her short story A Capital Offence received Ascent Aspirations First Prize for Flash Fiction.

  A Capital Offence, Short story, Ascent Aspirations Magazine

  Anthology Eight Winter 2010

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