In 1962 eight-year-old Tracey saves her little sister, Susie, from drowning in a swimming pool. Five years later, Tracey is diagnosed with a severe mental illness and Susie embarks on a lifelong journey that drags her into a different kind of deep water.

A contemporary novel anchored in Canadian history, Black Creek follows a hard-edged architect in a struggle to break free from an ancestral cycle that confines her to flat, sterile relationships and a career path that is more pragmatic than fulfilling.

An elevating short story about an adventurous mother and son. “Liam was six when he started to shimmy up doorway moldings, and the taller he grew, the greater the ascent. The therapist said he would grow out of it. Lena was not so sure.”

A life after death short story inspired by the 1987 Unitarian Church fire that took the lives of two Montreal firemen. “Audrey’s boots leave a trail of black holes in the snow-covered sidewalk as she stumbles through the biting polar air parked over Montreal.”