We’re getting a great response to our spring issue, packed with assessments, appreciations, and imagery on the theme of Corner Stores. Where can you buy it? In St John’s, try Johnny Ruth, The Travel Bug, Downtown Comics, the gift shop at The Rooms, Food For Thought, and, yes, the esteemed corner store Hallidays. We hope to update out list of national retailers very soon.
NQ: Where and when were you born? PTC: I was born on a sheep farm in the tiny Hamlet of The Highlands in the Codroy Valley area of the province…
The wind was still, but the cold was biting all the same. Stepping outside made her sinuses burn and her eyes water. She brushed the snow off the seat of her snowmobile—a mid-nineties Ski-Doo, always giving her trouble. She surveyed the town as she waited for the engine to warm up. It’s squat vinyl sided homes glowed amidst the dim winter daytime. Snowmobile tracks crisscrossed on the road but not a person was in sight. She checked her handheld GPS. The coordinates lined up with somewhere northwest, about a forty-five minute ride under the blanket of dark. There were no stars today. It was always cloudy.
Lovely sunset outside NQ office as we stroll home after a day’s prep on our (you won’t have to wait long for it) surprise…