SUNLIT
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Stories and storytelling come from the same space as lived experience and can often provide more profound insight and greater consolation than the most reliable body of factual evidence. As we often struggle to make sense and meaning of our dark and imperfect spaces, it is sometimes, those little flecks of light that show us the way forward or the way inward.
Following in the tradition of all memorable short stories that have become the fabric of our lives, these stories promise to not keep us long, but because they are snapshots, they force us to strip away distractions and see only what deserves to be seen. Because they are content to simply ask the questions, they force us to find the answers or live more courageously with the questions that have no answers.
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Preface ix
1 Little boy with a bat 1
2 Before the family holiday 4
3 Down a sloping road 8
4 The end 11
5 Fragments... in bed 14
6 So how well do you know your classical music? 15
7 Last customer for the day 18
8 3:03 pm 21
9 How could he! 27
10 Declared dead 29
11 Failed Attempt No. 6 32
12 My only gripe 34
13 Under attack 38
14 Bruno in the rain 41
15 I did think of that first! 45
16 No regrets 47
17 Emergency c-section 49
18 Bus stop conversations with a serial killer 52
19 The interrogation 56
20 Showdown at Confetti Laneway 59
21 Before the tour 62
22 Outside office hours 66
23 Pulled over 72
24 Miracle at St. Michael's 75
25 Gut feel 78
26 After the funeral 79
27 Haggling with a pro 83
28 Roadside memorial 85
29 A classical musician with misplaced loyalties 87
30 Embers 91
31 Running into the past 96
32 Bedtime story 98
33 Pedestrian at fault 100
34 Bound hand and foot 102
35 Rock bottom 105
36 Out of character 108
37 Portrait: Splendour on the grass 111
38 For the good times 113
39 Into the woods 115
40 Incomplete 119
41 Last tour over the reef 121
42 Hallowed ground 127
43 A cyberattack gets personal 129
44 At the lake 135
45 Glaring mistakes 138
46 Final memo 139
47 Beethoven reviews Brahms 143
48 The view from base camp 149
49 First warning 151
50 King of the road 156
51 Disturbing dreams 159
52 A dog walks into a bar - 1 161
53 Holy guacamole! 162
54 It will soon get dark 165
55 The Sandpiper's sacrifice 166
56 Your move 168
57 Left for dead 170
58 Eyewitness 173
59 Disinterested teenager listens as old man in a wheelchair holds forth at a loud party 176
60 The last straw 179
61 A dog walks into a bar - 2 182
62 Light and dark 184
63 Trick question 188
64 On the local news 190
65 A patch of green 192
66 Killing time before the food arrives 195
67 Grade 12 Religion Assignment 198
68 Love story 201
69 Lightning strikes three times 203
70 End of the reign 208
71 Abeo's first... and last tag 212
About The Author 217
