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068ac97	The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960's of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a wedding gift at the time. Her mother's hair, red back then, was held back by a blue handkerchief, and she was dressed in a billowing skirt and white blouse. Her father's denim jeans and faded t-shirt were streaked with coal dust as he held her h..	photography poverty arents coal-mine darkroom kodachrome print retro dancing coal canada memory nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
3808eec	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 soccer, but I forgot all the bullying and I'll never understand why. And now you ask me, you ask me what happened once we were in high school. You said you didn't understand what having a family was like, so ask me!" Mandy was shouting at him ..	friendship imaginary-friend beat-up cape-breton-parents wood-shop nova-scotia assault shop confession canada attack cruelty high-school friend conflict stress bully bullying fight wood school	Rebecca McNutt
2c93623	Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses.	money greed rose-colored-glasses capitalism ignorance	Rebecca McNutt
d39ed44	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 places left where it still had that nostalgic small town atmosphere but now... I've only been away for a year, how could things have changed so quickly? I mean, how can the world accept it?" "C'est la vie," said Alecto, looking extremely ti..	change life cell-phone environmental windshield cape-breton nova-scotia organic yoga digital tower street drive car modernity technology nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
95573c9	If you try to help me in any way, you'll annoy her, and you'll not only interfere with her murder timeline... you'll put yourself IN it.		Rebecca McNutt
2b9ba0e	Canada is a free country, after all.	free country	Rebecca McNutt
6734d89	Karen was cuddling her favourite stuffed animal, a mint-green toy deer which she called "Annabelle". Sometimes Jesse wondered about this... Karen loved the taste of venison and couldn't wait to shoot her first deer so she could brag to her friends about it. She had a pink camo baseball cap with "hunter" embroidered on the front. She enjoyed watching every year as Robert took out his big steel-bladed saw and sliced the antlers off his latest..	bambi inanimate-object rite-of-passage deer hunter stuffed-animal hunting childhood	Rebecca McNutt
c80a4a3	There are so many shady things happening in this country, they're happening all around us all the time, and we just accept them.	philosophy truth country united-states corruption mystery crime evil	Rebecca McNutt
91faff9	In keeping with your policy of bringing Pollution the latest in death and violence, and in living colour, there's going to be something entirely different... death without remediation.	violence television living death christine-chubbuck remediation policy pop-culture colour pollution	Rebecca McNutt
7c6eb50	Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rar..	gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly	Rebecca McNutt
178677b	Pollution were the rainbow-coloured oil slicks that spread upon the ocean's salty surface, the curling tendrils of smoke spiralling upwards into gray skies, the funeral pyres of rainforests, the sting of acid in the spring rain. Nonetheless, there was something about them that seemed so innocent and kind and friendly, despite the sites they guarded. Mandy often wondered why that was. Pollution looked like living weapons, with their sharp fi..		Rebecca McNutt
332a678	She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There's a married couple talking to their daughter. There's a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not on..	plexiglas slammer prisoner telephone jail glass daughter husband prison crime strange guilty phone	Rebecca McNutt
97ba715	Terrell is weeping soundlessly, and despite the guard's objection, he raises his hand up to the glass. Geraldine mimics him, lining her fingers up with his. It's lonely to think that one little sheet of glass could create such a thick distance between them, but all the same, regardless of what he's done, he's still one of the closest friends she has.	murder friendship guard jail glass hand friend prison crime	Rebecca McNutt
47b80d0	To a life of quiet desperation... and not leading it.	wealth freedom life witty quiet desperation	Rebecca McNutt
cbc687f	MOM!" Martha finally screamed. "Mom, you've got to see these!" "Is it about Hermione?" She exclaimed, rushing into the middle of the room. Her mouth dropped open in horror when she noticed Hermione's walls. "I can't find any... polite... photos of her, mom." "Why are there ones of her eating out of dumpsters and giving seniors the finger?" "No idea," Martha replied. "Oh god... I'll get one out of my wallet," Her mom decided, hurrying out of..	polite photo garbage weird teenage girl gross	Rebecca McNutt
20fb7a6	Hey Alecto, film this!" she called out. With the slide being as tall as a two-storey house, it felt slightly risky being up there. "On second thought, why don't you come up here? It's a blast being up here." "I don't really like to be in high places," said Alecto as he filmed her, the camera lens reflecting the entire playground, which was partially secluded by tall trees that cast otherworldly shadows dancing across the ground. "If you don..	friends friendship cape-breton psychedelic super-8 nova-scotia trippy 70-s heights sydney park camera seventies canada film flower drugs	Rebecca McNutt
bfd58d2	Alecto... what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours... how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery... probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how yo..	humor peanuts psychokinesis psychokinetic pyrokinetic super-8 super-8-film super-eight telekinesis throw pyrokinesis ordinary show film powers misery joke	Rebecca McNutt
35a2e9e	Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after... you know... after the funeral we haven't had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you'd be more mature now that Jud's gone," her father had disappointedly added. "How much'd that cake cost you?" "It's paid for," Mandy had argued, but her voice had sounded tiny in the harbour wind. "I used the cash from my summer job at Frenchy's last year and I... it was my bi..	money mourning grief loss depression death-of-a-sibling sibling brother cake argument birthday funeral parent normal father memory nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
a690594	Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren't the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary," Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully. "Sydney Tar Ponds," Mearth added, "I've had so many ordinary people as friends in my life that by now I've forgotten all their names. At first it was difficult... very sad... to see them always leaving, dying, disappearing, ignoring, but aft..	loss human death friendship housefly mother-earth personification ordinary pollution friend irish forget sad insane dying memory	Rebecca McNutt
15104fe	Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time.	time wrong living typical pollution place	Rebecca McNutt
f552d73	I don't like vegans, either. Bunch of whiny zealots. A cow or a pig wouldn't give a damn if a person died... animals tear apart other animals while they're still alive, but we aren't so cruel, so vegans should learn to shut up. Vegans use palm oil and never think about the forests and endangered species at risk from that... and they all exploit the world in other ways, buying their computers and their sweatshop clothes and their Starbucks c..	empathy morality jeffrey-dahmer pet-ownership veganism vegan ethics hypocrisy	Rebecca McNutt
899eef4	Tell yourselves whatever you'd like, but I'm afraid it doesn't make it true," Mearth sighed, beginning to look impatient. "Step aside Mandy, I have to remediate him, otherwise you'll find yourself in a whole mess of trouble." "You can't do this, it's wrong," Mandy insisted. "You don't have a choice, Mandy! Either you let his life compromise the lives of everybody else in the world, or you let me remediate him and get it over with," Mearth i..	illness earth grief loss depression faith death friendship hope life love nova-scotia environment rescue pollution help dog dying	Rebecca McNutt
a862d3d	Attention, Kmart shoppers! Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! You've all looked up at the night sky and seen the sparkle of millions of silver stars, wondering no doubt what it's like to be one of them... well, tonight here in glorious Ocean City, the silver light will shine in your eyes, because we all have a little magic, every one of us, and you're about to witness it up close, in the amazing abilities of some of the best magici..	magic optimism announcement kmart magician-ocean-city silver star celebration	Rebecca McNutt
cf1a107	Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn't have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for "a cup of coffee". If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn't have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what's..	kids marriage kiss change afterschool butterfly cheater extracurricular-activities girl-scouts homewrecker neighbours purolator caterpillar anime drawing street coffee parents beautiful children ugly	Rebecca McNutt
4777132	I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway." "Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left." "Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?" ..	rebellion friendship backwater danvers-state heaert-heartbreak mommy norman-bates runaway rural teen-roance mental-hospital emotional small-town parent normal gross drama	Rebecca McNutt

068ac97

The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960's of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a wedding gift at the time. Her mother's hair, red back then, was held back by a blue handkerchief, and she was dressed in a billowing skirt and white blouse. Her father's denim jeans and faded t-shirt were streaked with coal dust as he held her h..

photography poverty arents coal-mine darkroom kodachrome print retro dancing coal canada memory nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

3808eec

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 soccer, but I forgot all the bullying and I'll never understand why. And now you ask me, you ask me what happened once we were in high school. You said you didn't understand what having a family was like, so ask me!" Mandy was shouting at him ..

friendship imaginary-friend beat-up cape-breton-parents wood-shop nova-scotia assault shop confession canada attack cruelty high-school friend conflict stress bully bullying fight wood school

Rebecca McNutt

2c93623

Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses.

money greed rose-colored-glasses capitalism ignorance

Rebecca McNutt

d39ed44

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 places left where it still had that nostalgic small town atmosphere but now... I've only been away for a year, how could things have changed so quickly? I mean, how can the world accept it?" "C'est la vie," said Alecto, looking extremely ti..

change life cell-phone environmental windshield cape-breton nova-scotia organic yoga digital tower street drive car modernity technology nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

95573c9

If you try to help me in any way, you'll annoy her, and you'll not only interfere with her murder timeline... you'll put yourself IN it.

Rebecca McNutt

2b9ba0e

Canada is a free country, after all.

free country

Rebecca McNutt

6734d89

Karen was cuddling her favourite stuffed animal, a mint-green toy deer which she called "Annabelle". Sometimes Jesse wondered about this... Karen loved the taste of venison and couldn't wait to shoot her first deer so she could brag to her friends about it. She had a pink camo baseball cap with "hunter" embroidered on the front. She enjoyed watching every year as Robert took out his big steel-bladed saw and sliced the antlers off his latest..

bambi inanimate-object rite-of-passage deer hunter stuffed-animal hunting childhood

Rebecca McNutt

c80a4a3

There are so many shady things happening in this country, they're happening all around us all the time, and we just accept them.

philosophy truth country united-states corruption mystery crime evil

Rebecca McNutt

91faff9

In keeping with your policy of bringing Pollution the latest in death and violence, and in living colour, there's going to be something entirely different... death without remediation.

violence television living death christine-chubbuck remediation policy pop-culture colour pollution

Rebecca McNutt

7c6eb50

Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rar..

gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly

Rebecca McNutt

178677b

Pollution were the rainbow-coloured oil slicks that spread upon the ocean's salty surface, the curling tendrils of smoke spiralling upwards into gray skies, the funeral pyres of rainforests, the sting of acid in the spring rain. Nonetheless, there was something about them that seemed so innocent and kind and friendly, despite the sites they guarded. Mandy often wondered why that was. Pollution looked like living weapons, with their sharp fi..

Rebecca McNutt

332a678

She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There's a married couple talking to their daughter. There's a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not on..

plexiglas slammer prisoner telephone jail glass daughter husband prison crime strange guilty phone

Rebecca McNutt

97ba715

Terrell is weeping soundlessly, and despite the guard's objection, he raises his hand up to the glass. Geraldine mimics him, lining her fingers up with his. It's lonely to think that one little sheet of glass could create such a thick distance between them, but all the same, regardless of what he's done, he's still one of the closest friends she has.

murder friendship guard jail glass hand friend prison crime

Rebecca McNutt

47b80d0

To a life of quiet desperation... and not leading it.

wealth freedom life witty quiet desperation

Rebecca McNutt

cbc687f

MOM!" Martha finally screamed. "Mom, you've got to see these!" "Is it about Hermione?" She exclaimed, rushing into the middle of the room. Her mouth dropped open in horror when she noticed Hermione's walls. "I can't find any... polite... photos of her, mom." "Why are there ones of her eating out of dumpsters and giving seniors the finger?" "No idea," Martha replied. "Oh god... I'll get one out of my wallet," Her mom decided, hurrying out of..

polite photo garbage weird teenage girl gross

Rebecca McNutt

20fb7a6

Hey Alecto, film this!" she called out. With the slide being as tall as a two-storey house, it felt slightly risky being up there. "On second thought, why don't you come up here? It's a blast being up here." "I don't really like to be in high places," said Alecto as he filmed her, the camera lens reflecting the entire playground, which was partially secluded by tall trees that cast otherworldly shadows dancing across the ground. "If you don..

friends friendship cape-breton psychedelic super-8 nova-scotia trippy 70-s heights sydney park camera seventies canada film flower drugs

Rebecca McNutt

bfd58d2

Alecto... what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours... how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery... probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how yo..

humor peanuts psychokinesis psychokinetic pyrokinetic super-8 super-8-film super-eight telekinesis throw pyrokinesis ordinary show film powers misery joke

Rebecca McNutt

35a2e9e

Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after... you know... after the funeral we haven't had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you'd be more mature now that Jud's gone," her father had disappointedly added. "How much'd that cake cost you?" "It's paid for," Mandy had argued, but her voice had sounded tiny in the harbour wind. "I used the cash from my summer job at Frenchy's last year and I... it was my bi..

money mourning grief loss depression death-of-a-sibling sibling brother cake argument birthday funeral parent normal father memory nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

a690594

Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren't the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary," Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully. "Sydney Tar Ponds," Mearth added, "I've had so many ordinary people as friends in my life that by now I've forgotten all their names. At first it was difficult... very sad... to see them always leaving, dying, disappearing, ignoring, but aft..

loss human death friendship housefly mother-earth personification ordinary pollution friend irish forget sad insane dying memory

Rebecca McNutt

15104fe

Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time.

time wrong living typical pollution place

Rebecca McNutt

f552d73

I don't like vegans, either. Bunch of whiny zealots. A cow or a pig wouldn't give a damn if a person died... animals tear apart other animals while they're still alive, but we aren't so cruel, so vegans should learn to shut up. Vegans use palm oil and never think about the forests and endangered species at risk from that... and they all exploit the world in other ways, buying their computers and their sweatshop clothes and their Starbucks c..

empathy morality jeffrey-dahmer pet-ownership veganism vegan ethics hypocrisy

Rebecca McNutt

899eef4

Tell yourselves whatever you'd like, but I'm afraid it doesn't make it true," Mearth sighed, beginning to look impatient. "Step aside Mandy, I have to remediate him, otherwise you'll find yourself in a whole mess of trouble." "You can't do this, it's wrong," Mandy insisted. "You don't have a choice, Mandy! Either you let his life compromise the lives of everybody else in the world, or you let me remediate him and get it over with," Mearth i..

illness earth grief loss depression faith death friendship hope life love nova-scotia environment rescue pollution help dog dying

Rebecca McNutt

a862d3d

Attention, Kmart shoppers! Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! You've all looked up at the night sky and seen the sparkle of millions of silver stars, wondering no doubt what it's like to be one of them... well, tonight here in glorious Ocean City, the silver light will shine in your eyes, because we all have a little magic, every one of us, and you're about to witness it up close, in the amazing abilities of some of the best magici..

magic optimism announcement kmart magician-ocean-city silver star celebration

Rebecca McNutt

cf1a107

Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn't have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for "a cup of coffee". If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn't have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what's..

kids marriage kiss change afterschool butterfly cheater extracurricular-activities girl-scouts homewrecker neighbours purolator caterpillar anime drawing street coffee parents beautiful children ugly

Rebecca McNutt

4777132

I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway." "Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left." "Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?" ..

rebellion friendship backwater danvers-state heaert-heartbreak mommy norman-bates runaway rural teen-roance mental-hospital emotional small-town parent normal gross drama

Rebecca McNutt