One Day It Happens

by Dickinson, Mary Lou

• ISBN13: 9780978223328
• ISBN10: 0978223322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Brunswick Books

Summary

Fiction. ONE DAY IT HAPPENS is an eclectic collection of short stories, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters. One of the universal factors in human existence is the need to connect with one another. When these characters fail to do so, it is the result of fear, of loneliness, of violence, of impending death. Sometimes they succeed in spite of everything to reach a place of insight and understanding, usually in unexpected ways and to their own surprise. Mary Lou Dickinson graduated with a Master in Library Science from the University of Toronto and worked for many years as a crisis counsellor. Her fiction has been published in the University of Windsor Review, Descant, Waves, Grain, Northern Journey, Impulse, Writ and broadcast on CBC Radio. Her writing was also included in the anthology, We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman. Mary Lou Dickinson lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Slides of Exotic Places	p. 1
One Day It Happens	p. 14
Hello, Angel	p. 23
The Empty Chair	p. 39
The Golden Chain	p. 48
A Country Weekend	p. 57
The Train Ride	p. 72
National Personals	p. 81
Neighbours	p. 92
The Essay	p. 104
Who Are You Today?	p. 114
The Yellow Volvo	p. 123
From the Front	p. 129
First She Killed Him	p. 137
Hannah's Drawings	p. 149
Two Women in Venice	p. 158
Hats	p. 167
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