Out of the Mist
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Janet Doleman –
Janet grew up in the small community of Barrington Passage on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. She remembers her grandmother’s original poems in birthday cards, which inspired her to write. She carries on a family tradition of writing diaries, letters and journals. Janet earned her B.A. in English and a University diploma in Secretarial Science at Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, and lives in Dartmouth with husband George. Their daughter Katie lives and works nearby; son Michael works in law enforcement in British Columbia.
Maida Barton Follini –
Maida is a Connecticut Yankee transplanted to Nova Scotia in 1980. Her interests include Genealogy and History, and she edits a Family Newsletter circulated to over 100 kinfolk. While living in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Maida wrote a series on the history of churches in Cumberland County, and a monthly column for the Amherst Daily News. Her poem, “Osprey’s Call” won the Cumberland County Library’s poetry writing contest, and she has had several poems published in journals of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Moving to Dartmouth, N.S. in 2008, Maida volunteers at the Dartmouth Heritage Museum, where she edits the Museum Gazette. She has authored the museum pamphlet “A Quaker Odyssey: The Migration of Quaker Whalers from Nantucket, Massachusetts to Dartmouth Nova Scotia and Milford Haven, Wales.”
Diane Losier –
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Diane Losier is in the process of discovering the truth in Thomas Mann's paradoxical statement. She still has her first journal entries neatly written, in pencil, at 10 years old. Her bedroom closet is full of the numerous journals she has filled over the years. Recently retired, Ms. Losier has taken several writing courses, including a semester in Writing Short Fiction at a local university in Halifax. Writing short stories has proven to be a challenge which she is, nevertheless, greatly enjoying. Her very first short story, “Changes”, is included in this anthology.
Catherine A. MacKenzie –
Cathy escapes from her mundane world by writing poems and short fiction. Although she writes all genres, she often veers toward the dark and death, composing fiction most women can relate to. Although at first reading some of her stories might appear bizarre, they are so ominously real that one wonders what lives hidden within her mind. Cathy has been published in various print and online publications. She has also self-published several poetry and short story collections, available as e-books and print books on Amazon and Smashwords.
Cathy also paints, pastels being her favourite medium and her grandchildren her favourite subjects. She lives with her husband in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The couple winters in Ajijic, Mexico, where her works have appeared in local publications.
Visit Cathy’s website at www.writingwicket.wordpress.com to discover more about this author and where to purchase her books.
Janet McGinity –
Janet was born in Moncton, New Brunswick to an Acadian mother and a father of Irish descent, and is fluently bilingual. She has been telling or writing stories all her life, and counts getting her first library card at age seven as among the most important events of her life. She was employed as a journalist with the Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe in Saint John, New Brunswick from 1982-1989, after obtaining a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of King’s College in 1982. She also wrote short radio pieces and documentaries for CBC Radio in Moncton, and a few magazine articles.
Janet also holds a B.A. in Psychology (Waterloo), a diploma in Historical/Natural Interpretive Services (Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology), a certificate in adult education (St. Francis Xavier) and studied folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
She lives in Halifax, where after leaving journalism, she worked for the federal government, first as an interpretation specialist with Parks Canada, then as a Human Resources Advisor with a variety of federal departments. Now happily retired since 2009, she has time and freedom to devote to writing. She is currently working on a historical novel set in the 1870s in Jersey, Channel Islands, and Isle Madame, Cape Breton, along with shorter works of fiction. She is one of the founding members of Evergreen Writers Group.
Tom Robson –
Tom gave up writing creatively when the powers that be determined that untidy penmanship, erratic spelling, absent punctuation and grammatical inaccuracy were more worthy of their attention and criticism than his brilliant story ideas. But eventually he left school and, 20 years later found himself encouraging children to write, while satisfying his own urge to write with them and for them.
There have been many short stories and much personal writing. He likes to write poetry though it is not his forte. His one effort at a novel for middle grades won him first prize in the Atlantic Writing Competition in 1991. The necessity to revise and rewrite to satisfy publishers’ demands was a writing requirement that frustrates him still.
There was a follow up success; second place in the Personal Writing category of the Atlantic Writing Competition for a story, “The First Time” or “All Those Days When the Earth Didn’t Move.”
His adaptation, into a performance piece, of “Peace Begins with You” by Katherine Scholes is published in Peaceful Schools and has been performed in many classrooms and as far away as Bosnia. Other original plays have been performed by his students in schools.
Currently, Tom writes for his own enjoyment and is collecting the many Scary Stories he has written for children, with a view to having them published. He also has a collection of personal reminiscences entitled “Long before Seventy Five,” that he wishes to self-publish.
He thanks his spelling coach and very understanding wife and those long suffering students; the victims of his obsession. But they can write and he even thinks some enjoy doing so.
Arthur G. White –
In the dedicatory remarks of his book, Art writes: “To my Father, a letter-writing man, in whose likeness I’m proud to be compared.” Also on that page was this: “To Henry Cowan, my boyhood English teacher, who valued a well-turned phrase above one purfectly spelt.”
In the lee of those mentors, as a manuscript preacher, story-teller/writer, author and playwright, Mr. White has well-turned phrases all his life. His CV includes more than 200 magazine stories and articles in the United States and Canada, a collected work: “From Away, Here to Stay” and, in recent years, dozens of plays and historical readings, in which he has occupied roles as producer, director, actor, publicist and ticket-taker.
Says the author: “Thanks to Evergreen Writers for including ‘Making it Happen’ in their Anthology. It’s a story I’ve been wanting to pass along for years….”
Wilma Stewart-White –
Wilma’s fascination with the printed word started early in her life. A voracious reader and a journal keeper, the step into writing was natural. A business owner, museum curator, avid gardener and traveler, she lives in retirement in a very old house in Lunenburg County that holds its own secrets and ghosts. Her teacher training left her with a healthy respect for grammar and spelling and a deep and abiding love of books especially biographies and English novels. She is currently working on a mystery set in her small town.
Phil Yeats –
Phil Yeats lives with his wife of 40 years on the ocean in Halifax. He has a keen interest in environmental science and dabbled in yachting and golf before turning to creative writing. Phil is the author of two published short stories written using the pen name Alan Kemister, and is working on a mystery novel about a detective in a fictional town on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. More information about these writing projects is available at alkemi47.blogspot.com.
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Table of Contents
The Voices of Dawnbrook
Avast There! Belay That!
Gran-gran’s Ghost
Who’s t
he Old Hag?
The Skeleton without a Skull
Fate
The Séance
Tim’s Dinner
Room 428
The Ghosts’ Night Out, or Bats in the Belfry
The Once and Future Ghost
The House on the Hill
The Dancing Tulip
Graveyard Study
The Ghost Truck of Russiantown
Changes
My Booots!
Making it Happen
In Good Company
Never Go Across to that Island
Eternal Love
Neptune’s Wraith
Authors’ Biographies
Gran-gran’s Ghost