
What’s Inside “From the Cottage Porch?”
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 1st
Barbara Winter
Epilogue
Closing the Cottage
Susan Lynn Reynolds

