Set against a backdrop of current news stories, Game Misconduct follows the daily lives of seven Canadians in five separate cities. Each has their own problems, challenges, and goals. They live their lives in the shadow of the Stars and Stripes, searching for pride in their homeland, until the unthinkable happens. America invades.
***Winner of the 2005 Percy Janes First Novel award***
This story is a clever and funny spoof on how news covers world events... fascinating and fun to read... an exciting and well-paced novel. - Helen Peters
Excerpt
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
“...We will not permit this to happen. We have lived in peace for 200 years, unafraid of attack from the north. We believed our neighbors to be our friends and allies. Sadly, this was not true. Our unquestioning faith in this ideal has almost been our undoing. But we will now rise like our eagle and throw off the chains of oppression before they are hammered tight!”
"Is that a mixed metaphor?" asked Deb.
"Yes. You learned some English. Now be quiet and learn some history"
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
