Php imprint: 5 books

Synopsis Eight-year-old Jonathan who is intrigued on Christmas morning when he spots his neighbour, Agnes Sweetwater, trudging off into the forest, pulling a sledge loaded with sacks. Agnes will not divulge the secret of where she goes. Jonathan develops a close relationship with the...

In this short story, a suburban wife's perceptions of life and self-awareness are irreparably altered when she witnesses a brief but vivid moment of violence in downtown Chinatown. (Originally published in The North Atlantic Review..)  By the author of the critically acclaimed novel "Jo Joe" (also available on Kobo).

When Eileen Powell gathered her Poems & sent them to Newfoundland Press - it was a delight to discover just how many poems, on so many topics, were in one manuscript envelope. Eileen Powell still lives in Corner Brook - her home and turf. In her late eighties, she gathered together her poems and...

A Short Story. We all have our fantasies—our hopes and dreams of what we want our future to be. But what happens when our fantasies are based on an erroneous interpretation of past events, when our hopes and dreams are so far from reality that they prevent us from having any kind of a normal life?...

A droll, slightly jaundiced look at contemporary morés, this mini collection of very short illustrated stories reaches below the funny bone to expose insights and truths about who we are and what we are becoming. Even in the best of times, life has always been complicated and confusing....