Status Updates From Hard Ol' Spot

THE CHAIN AROUND MY NECK by Leslie Veyenhoek is about January and Giselle. Mother and Giselle go to England for the summer. Jan stays in Mount Pearl. She plans to go to university and then to Paris. She wears a chain with the Eiffel Tower, keeping her "EYES ON THE PRIZE". Jan works at the mall, happy to have the summer alone. She throws a house party, gets drunk and is gang-raped by three guys.

I read DRIVE-THRU by Elizabeth Blanchard. Penny with webbed feet works at a drive-thru like Robins or Tim Hortons.

I finished the Introduction by Kathleen Winter and the first short story Break, Break, Break by Gerard Collins about a storm on Valentine's Day in Darwin, Newfoundland in 1982.

I finished the Introduction by Kathleen Winter and the first short story Break, Break, Break by Gerard Collins about a storm on Valentine's Day in Darwin, Newfoundland in 1982.