Top Nova Scotia Quotes
Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone, her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. Where’ve you been, what’ve you been up to?Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend,...
Rebecca McNutt
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call, canada, cape breton, conversation, dysfunctional families, eighteen, family, friend, friendship, girl
…I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important… it’s almost like people want to believe in some illusion that they’re robots and forget altogether that...
Rebecca McNutt
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apocalypse, canada, cell phone, digital, dystopian, earth, environmental, gone, grief, hopeless
Alecto, have you noticed how downhill this little island is becoming? Mandy questioned sadly. All these organic food stores and yoga studios and cellular phone towers… Cape Breton was one of the only...
Rebecca McNutt
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cape breton, car, cell phone, change, digital, drive, environmental, life, modernity, nostalgia
I know what I'm talking about, Alecto! When I think of Jud, I think of the times he wanted to be a coal miner, the times he took Wendy and me sailing in the harbour, the times he showed me how to play...
Rebecca McNutt
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assault, attack, beat up, bully, bullying, canada, cape breton parents, confession, conflict, cruelty
Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. This is a wicked blast,...
Rebecca McNutt
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35mm camera, brother, canada, cape breton, christmas, coal, fake, family, nova scotia, photography
They think I’m not entirely ‘grounded in reality’, they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back prog...
Rebecca McNutt
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canada, center, coming of age, family, friendship, humor, locks, nostalgia, nova scotia, ontario