Photo Caption: Here we are on July 20. Photo by Phil Hossack.
POSTED HERE EARLIER (Pre-event): Janice and I live in a 1950 cottage on the shore of a lake in the Whiteshell Provincial Park in Manitoba.
We try to live simply out here in the boreal–WiFi and Polish beer notwithstanding–but even the residents of Walden Pond gave in to the occasional venture back to the city for supplies and human contact. Us too.
On July 20 we will try to bring the city to the Park. We hope to be swamped by forest-thirsty urbanites, neighbours, and friendly randos here at our Walden. We will welcome these visitors to be our guests and, if they can, to bring a story, a poem, a song, a painting and share it with the gathering.
A night under the stars. Informal artistic expression and reflective appreciation. Come by boat, windsurfer, canoe. Swim, hike in, ride a bike or fill a vehicle–float plane, microbus, Red River cart, or a 1947 Lincoln Zephyr. . . whatevs–with your most convivial merry prankster friends.
[…] “twas in another lifetime,
one of toil and blood.
When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud.
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
‘Come in,’ she said, ‘I’ll give you shelter from the storm.'”
~~~
Let us, like Bob Dylan’s friend in his mystic lyric above, offer you an evening of shelter from the storm.
AND, if you can’t make it in person, we’d welcome your proxy–a snippet or an excerpt or a few lines of verse. We’ll present your work with reverence and hope. Then we’ll toast you and hope once more—that you join us next year.
Contact me here or on Facebook, twitter, email, Goodreads, phone, or drop in for details. mtoews55@gmail.com to learn about the point in time and space where reality meets infinity, borne on blintering starlight at the 50th latitude.
JULY 22 The Aftermath… see it all here: https://tale.code.blog/2019/07/23/prosetry-anthology/
Mitchell Toews 
Lovely ending!!!
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Thanks!
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Mitchell –
If this is too long or political, let me know and I’ll find something shorter and funny (?)
https://synchchaos.com/doug-hawleys-short-story-space-force-vs-space-squids/
or here is something shorter and creepy
View at Medium.com
Specific Northwest Doug
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Hawley, you short story submission slut, you! This is awesome! For me, the 45-bashing is a work of art, but mixed crowd here, mostly Canucks too, so maybe the finer points (I’m sure there are some) may be missed. (Har.)
How bout something in the 4-5 minute range for reading? Reading slow, I find this is about 675-700 words. Less than two pages, double spaced. I will find a volunteer to rehearse and read your story and enshrine it in Jessica Lake lore, evermore, evermore.
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Holy carp, I just found this July 9 in my blog. Where did you send this? Too late now, but you can always sample my huge body or my writings for that matter. Hope it went well. If his happens in the future, just email me the specs and I can hit the mark.
Best, Musty Doug
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