Catharine Leggett

Catharine Leggett’s collection of short stories, In Progress, won the Eludia Award and was published in June 2019 by Sowilo Press (imprint of Hidden River Arts). Her prize-winning short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and online publications, throughout Canada and the United States, as well as on CBC radio. A novel, The Way to Go Home, was published in the fall of 2019 by Urban Farmhouse Press.

Portia at the Lake

Portia’s hiking stick tapped the ground. Gravel roiled underfoot; thoughts tumbled. Clouds opened and closed like curtains, blinkered the moon. Wind whipped, settled, blew up again. The woods bashed and ached a lively dance.
Too late to be out walking. What choice did she have? She had to escape Bill and Alda Edgerton, their unbearable conversation, and their daughter.
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