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A Mosaic of Short Stories and Poems

by Dianne Barnes and Vincent Barnes

293 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1971; ISBN 1-4251-4618-X; US$33.35, C$33.35, EUR22.78, £17.22

Mosaic of stories; mythical, love, ghosts, humorous, political satire and mystery. An interesting variety of poems.

About the Book

This is a variety of short stories; mythical, love, ghosts, humorous, political satire and mystery, as well as an interesting collection of poems, 'The Beauty Of Writing' is one of them.

Mysterious little creatures who are believed to exist in Jamaica. An immigrant tells of her experience of working in the low wage industries in Canada. The story of a banjo player who rides the bicycle while playing his banjo, his ghost is seen by children on the beach to the consternation of their parents. An African woman's struggle for survival. A romantic story of a kissing stone. From My Heavenly Home, an imaginative environmental story of how the spirits look down on earth today to see how it compares with early man. Dianne remembers the Ghosts Of Roderick Lake, followed by Searching For The Spirits of My Ancestors. Both co-written by Dianne and Vincent. Do You Know, Skunks Believe in God? Good Wars, from Roman times to modern, corporate wars. The Big Christian Island Oil Strike is a hilarious story of the impossible. My Most Memorable Christmas, during the Great Depression in 1935. Love-N Sex at Eighty.

Poems such as Cloud Nine, Stitches of Love, Duncan's Legacy, Who Wins?, a war poem, and Love in a Shower.

And Much More!

About the Authors

Vincent was born and raised in Peterborough which he wrote about in his Otonabee story. While working for General Electric in Toronto, Vincent was a columnist for a union newspaper, The Voice of the Worker where he wrote the "Doings From Davenport" column for ten years. Topics he covered included grievances, safety, health problems, why workers should join a union. Because of his nose for news, his column was the most read in the newspaper. Then Barnes put his writing and research interests on the back burner until 1994 when he bought a computer. Since then he has written a proliferation of slice-of-life short stories, poetry and books. His short story, Frozen Roots and poem The Beauty of Writing were published in Wordscape 4 and Wordscape 2, Anthologies by Members of the Metropolitan Toronto Branch of the Canadian Authors Association.

Dianne Campbell/Barnes was born in Timmins Ontario. The family moved to Midland Ontario in the early 1950's. Dianne and Vincent began as co-writers on their first book Our Long Road To Happiness. They have written several short stories together. Dianne uses her secretarial background and good command of the English Language to nit-pick through the practical, but uses her experiences and emotions to write from the heart.