Maritimes Stories

Russell M. Waters is a substitute humanities teacher living in Upper Bainville, New Brunswick. He has had a rough year. One of his sons has recently gone to prison. The other plans to move far away. His estranged wife is petitioning for a divorce. In September he gets a call to cover classes over the course of an entire school year. Russ undertakes a campaign of public improvement, beginning with the letters page of the local newspaper.

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Cloaked in the scenic beauty of Nova Scotia, a woman navigates the complexities of love and family, as well as a secret that binds her to one of her closest childhood friends.

In the quiet, salt-crusted streets of Halifax, the world has gone still. Patricia, an accountant who finds safety in the rigid logic of balanced ledgers, is unraveling. When a forty-two-cent error in her books becomes an obsession she can't solve, she turns to a nightly Zoom room called "The Coffee Corner" to drown out the silence of her North End flat. Enter Brandon-a carpenter with a weathered beard and a poet's perspective on the grain of old wood. While the rest of the world is panicking, he's carving shorebirds and tracing the history of the city's echoes. What starts as competitive trivia and witty private messages soon turns into a digital lifeline that neither of them expected. Through the blue light of their screens, Patricia and Brandon discover that while the city is on pause, their hearts are finally finding a rhythm. It's a story of finding balance when the math fails, and realizing that the most solid connections are often built in the spaces between the pixels.