This beautiful book features the talents of 31 outstanding writers from across Ontario. The 43 stories, memoirs and poems are organized using the passing of time at the cottage. From the dewey, crisp mornings filled with birdsong to long afternoons on the water to lively evenings spent around the campfire, the book moves from sunrise to sunset.

Table of Contents

Prologue

The Cottage Porch

Jessica Outram

Sunrise

Awareness Dawning

Lynn Vieira

First Swim

Barbara Winter

Shabbat on Eagle Lake

RhuBarb

At Dawn

Bonnie Thomson

Phoebes

S.A. McCormick

Morning

A Morning Revelation

Graham Ducker

At the Cottage

John Butcher

Vacation

S.A. McCormick

So much depends

Sheila Stewart

Dad’s Dinghy!

John Forrest

lament

Tiina Heathcock

The Epic of the Reluctant Diver

Anne Louise Currie

A Message from the Outhouse

Bob Smith

Afternoon

Tadpole

Susan Lynn Reynolds

The Summer of Shovels & Three-leaf Clovers

Sacha Farrell

The Old Timer

Graham Ducker

Cookie Goes Swimming

Mary McIntyre

Everything I Know about Leeches I Learned at the Cottage

Phyllis Diller Stewart

Voyagers

S.A. McCormick

The Dam

Tina Collett

Wink

Ken Bond

Porch Bingo

Jessica Outram

Evening

You Whisper in my Ear

Paul Dobbs

Family Picnic Magic

Jessica Outram

Tilly’s Socks to the Rescue!

Pat Skene

Our Cottage My Heaven

Patricia Miller

Finding the Sameness

James Dewar

Your Strange Cottage

Glenn Kletke

The Struggle

Vicki Pinkerton

When Trees Could Walk

Alex Hamilton-Brown

Sunset

ashimmer

Tiina Heathcock

Lone Pine

Elaine Cruise Smith

Coming and Going and Life In-Between

Heather Tucker

Arrival

Helene Iardas

Buried Treasure

D.A. Stark

threshold

Tiina Heathcock

Night

Cottage Puzzle

Anne Louise Currie

summer

Tiina Heathcock

The Bunkie

Collette Yvonne

Cottage Behind Me

Vicki Pinkerton

Fireworks: July 1^st

Barbara Winter

Epilogue

Closing the Cottage

Susan Lynn Reynolds