"there’s something authentic, true
– special,
in the struggle of a long-distance race,
much as there is in any life lived
– whether hard, good, bad, or “different”
made all the more so
by its isolation, the loneliness …"
Prose, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
After retiring from teaching high school English and English as a Second Language, Glenn Arthur Sweazey moved to Ottawa from Toronto. He a leads a local group of writers, “In the Company of Writers,” when they meet twice monthly. He also teaches Newcomers Conversational English once a week at Ottawa’s Main Library. One past work includes a verse novel manuscript, The Lost Papers of Tom Thomson.