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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..	arents canada coal coal-mine dancing darkroom kodachrome memory nostalgia photography poverty print retro	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 ..	assault attack beat-up bully bullying canada cape-breton-parents confession conflict cruelty fight friend friendship high-school imaginary-friend nova-scotia school shop stress wood wood-shop	Rebecca McNutt
2c93623	Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses.	capitalism greed ignorance money rose-colored-glasses	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..	cape-breton car cell-phone change digital drive environmental life modernity nostalgia nova-scotia organic street technology tower windshield yoga	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.	country free	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 childhood deer hunter hunting inanimate-object rite-of-passage stuffed-animal	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.	corruption country crime evil mystery philosophy truth united-states	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.	christine-chubbuck colour death living policy pollution pop-culture remediation television violence	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..	fake fashion gloss magazine makeup photo photograph plastic pretty shallow superficial 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..	crime daughter glass guilty husband jail phone plexiglas prison prisoner slammer strange telephone	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.	crime friend friendship glass guard hand jail murder prison	Rebecca McNutt
47b80d0	To a life of quiet desperation... and not leading it.	desperation freedom life quiet wealth witty	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..	garbage girl gross photo polite teenage weird	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..	70-s camera canada cape-breton drugs film flower friends friendship heights nova-scotia park psychedelic seventies super-8 sydney trippy	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..	film humor joke misery ordinary peanuts powers psychokinesis psychokinetic pyrokinesis pyrokinetic show super-8 super-8-film super-eight telekinesis throw	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..	argument birthday brother cake death-of-a-sibling depression father funeral grief loss memory money mourning normal nostalgia parent sibling	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..	death dying forget friend friendship housefly human insane irish loss memory mother-earth ordinary personification pollution sad	Rebecca McNutt
15104fe	Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time.	living place pollution time typical wrong	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 ethics hypocrisy jeffrey-dahmer morality pet-ownership vegan veganism	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..	death depression dog dying earth environment faith friendship grief help hope illness life loss love nova-scotia pollution rescue	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..	announcement celebration kmart magic magician-ocean-city optimism silver star	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..	afterschool anime beautiful butterfly caterpillar change cheater children coffee drawing extracurricular-activities girl-scouts homewrecker kids kiss marriage neighbours parents purolator street 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?" ..	backwater danvers-state drama emotional friendship gross heaert-heartbreak mental-hospital mommy normal norman-bates parent rebellion runaway rural small-town teen-roance	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..

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

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 ..

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

Rebecca McNutt

2c93623

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

capitalism greed ignorance money rose-colored-glasses

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..

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

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.

country free

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

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.

corruption country crime evil mystery philosophy truth united-states

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.

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

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..

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

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

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.

crime friend friendship glass guard hand jail murder prison

Rebecca McNutt

47b80d0

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

desperation freedom life quiet wealth witty

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..

garbage girl gross photo polite teenage weird

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

Rebecca McNutt

15104fe

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

living place pollution time typical wrong

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 ethics hypocrisy jeffrey-dahmer morality pet-ownership vegan veganism

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

Rebecca McNutt