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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Better bequeath your collection to someone very very special. There’s gold in them pages!! I mean really, $580….😮

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Cuts? In Ontario education? Seems that head office here is getting continual rises and more managers managing managers…disheartening on the front line for sure… Oh I loved the Kylie documentary. Quite a few tears shed. I’m so happy I saw her live and she loved my rainbow suit….❤️

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social That was one of the hardest weeks I’ve had working 20 years in education… God bless the dogs…

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Oh man…this was the special edition I always wanted and missed. I did get the 2019 limited edition..

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The wheels keep spinning - yes subscribed to this wonderful letter club and this theme was explored after Kiki got caught behind in a tractor in Niagara on the Lake Ontario. Live the day my friends. Catch her at @theluckyduckmailclub. Tell her I sent ya! 😀

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The letter was a tale about getting caught behind a tractor and realizing that sometimes things are out of our control and to slow down and just enjoy life. The postcard highlight the joy of having clean laundry and staying present.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Thought of you reading an article on the revival of Letter writing that lead me to Kiki Klassen. For $40 she will sent you a letter with unique art every month for 6 months. I’m hooked! @theluckyduckmailclub

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Day 25 2022/25 #ssac2025 A Present for Big Santa Nick Kurt Vonnegut ‘Our Santa Nick is a…prying, foul mouthed, ill smelling fake’ Big Nick has a party as Santa giving presents but asking kids what their parents think of him. As he is the ‘heir to the power of Al Capone’ But kids just can’t lie.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

#ssac2025 @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social @onelitchick.bsky.social So ends this great series of stories. Kevin Wilson hits it out of the park. Thanx once again to each of you for the collective read along. I hope we get to do it all again soon! 👏❤️🤩

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 24 #ssac2025 A Very Mario Lopez Christmas Megan Giddings ‘It’s my Christmas to fall in love. I will spend the holidays terrorizing and romancing Mario Lopez’ A women abducts a man for love. Chaos ensures. For the reader as well. Comedy is an acquired taste. This isn’t.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 23 #ssac2025 When You Were Here Claire Lombardo ‘He’s always been a bit of an asshole’ Josh clashes with dad Pete and disappears as he didn’t want to go to college. His mom Carolyn resends Pete that he is more closer to their daughters. Love isn’t equal when your kids are so different.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day 22 #ssac2025 A Nativity Scene Rion Amilcar Scott ‘I knew she would, and she did’ He was stressed. He had deadlines. But, he had a plan. Until his wife went into contractions and the dispatcher screamed: ‘That baby cannot hit the water!’…. When needs must. We simply do. Because we can.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Well welcome abroad! I’m Des in Vancouver BC and was lucky to discover the first SSAC back when it came out in 2015. Proud to say I’m a ‘Completist’! I’ve also been fortunate to have exchanged notes here with Barbara, Teresa and Jason for about 3 - 5 years now. It’s a great tradition for sure.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 21 #ssac2025 The Rent Controlled Ghost Lee Cornell ‘I’ll tell you a secret…I talk to 4c sometimes. I mean the old 4c’ After his widow Dad and son Cooper move into 4c, Miguel tells him of Halina, who haunts their new apartment. Missing his mom he tries to contact her. Grief takes many forms.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Day 20 The Old Ways Silas House ‘What are you doing with that snooty women?’ Mel returns to her visit her mom Alpha in rural Kentucky with Priscilla and son Blue. Despite a clash over expectations they come to a place of mutual understanding. For most people, Christmas is the great equalizer.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Day 19 Beneath the Softness of Snow Chanel Sutherland ‘You are not my child’…even as you reach across the barrier of the crib and brush his golden hair’ A West Indian women struggles as she leaves her daughters behind to Nanny in Montreal. A better life comes with stark human cost.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Day 18 How to Milk a Sheep Stephanie Dennee A heartbroken college grad agrees to housesit a power couple farm. With no experience she finds herself lambing a ewe. ‘Lie and say you can’t, when what you mean is that you won’t’ When sucking up to get ahead she actually discovers her true worth.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

When it’s 3:50pm and you’ve just finished today’s story in a deserted and quiet classroom. 😊

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Day 17 Protection Paola Peroni ‘The living have an uncanny proclivity to ignore death when faced with it’ She returned to Rome from New York to be with her dying grandmother. Their precious time together brings salvation, perspective and peace by being unflinchingly real to their shared plight.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Day 16 Storm Windows Charles Haverty ‘The women’s had to put up with a lot of nonsense over the years’ Isolated memories and traditions intertwine to show how Lionel and Margot’s relationship with their parents have waxed and wane over time, as painful transgressions fade with old age.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Maybe we could have picked up Blair when I was with a group delivering a car from New York to Sacramento CA in 1986? We passed through the Badlands and Mount Rushmore.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Day 15 The Idler Tyler Barton ‘What idles is a fat-ass, cobalt F-250’ A knock on the window and Blair finds herself in a bar gushing to Kareen. It’s the night of awakening from how she came to small town USA and why she wants to leave. Love’s young dream wilts in the cold of South Dakota.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Princess Luna is actually our new second dog from Cancun Mexico. 😀

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Day 14 Remedies Kali Fajardo-Anstine ‘That man and his choices are behind you now’ Single mom Millie brings 10 year old Harrison over so that Clarisa can meet her half brother. Things get serious when they call Grandma Estrella to rid their lice. Sometimes happy families work better separated

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Vancouver Winter Olympics Such an amazing time… I was actually paid by Aquabus to do a blog of my experiences. And it’s still live: inthecenterofitall.blogspot.com?m=0 Lots of stuff and nonsense…. 🤩

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Happy days. God bless Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Day 13 Two-Man Luge: A Love Story Claire Battershill ‘The only way I can really explain how I got into competitive luge is by talking about inertia’ He doesn’t know why, but his journey to the Olympics always had Patresh in mind. Leaving more is always a sign of a good story. Marvellous.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Day 12 2018/8 Festive George Saunders ‘And just like that, is Xmas’ A father with kids navigate the reality of impending holiday after taking lower paid job post layoff. The essence of Christmas is what you make of it and why.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Day 11 2023/9 Cosmic Cul De Sac Jade Song ‘Wo Yao hui his’ you beg, I want to come home’ An Asian wife is abandoned by her astronaut husband in US suburban hell which drives her to extreme measures with very unexpected consequences. Harmony with nature leads to eternal cosmic bliss.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Day 10 2020/13 Our Humans Meng Jin ‘I knew that he had actually left Kim for the impossible dream’ In a depleted LA working at the Preservation Dept. she meets Duowan. He wants to take her back to China, to start anew on an ‘immortal server’ to eternal life… Abduction for love is still a crime.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Day 9 2022/19 Reindeer Cyan Jones ‘That guy. Last year. There’s a lot of us think it was right, what happened to him’ Ston treks into the hills to stalk a wayward bear. Yet, the discovery of a dead reindeer and sleigh hints at the unthinkable. Festive mystery that lingers long afterwards…

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Day 8 2020/22 The Ones We Carry with Us Sara O’Leary ‘I don’t want to die.. I know..But we have to’ She volunteered at a senior home witnessing Agatha death after dementia. A life lived with the an open heart shows our loved ones won’t be forgotten. 2020: ‘A perfect short story’ Which it is.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I didn’t see Kubrick classic until the 90’s as he banned it for public viewing in the UK for years. Although it was the inspiration for one of my fav all time bands ‘….the Heaven 17’…I remember I was disturbed long after that viewing. Like seeing the flying monkeys in the original ‘Wizard of Oz’ 😂

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Talking of past editions. I took a peek at the 2015 edition. Oh my, ‘short’ was certainly stretched. I found a 35 page and the Christmas Day delight was a whopping 58 pages! Certainly would be good to relive one day.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Day 7 2016/15 Minus, His Heart Jedediah Berry ‘You have my spine, but I don’t have your tape’ Minus, forces Chip to get back his audio tape he stole from his chest. Winsome Jenny doesn’t have it. So they set off to see Zooman Jubal… Peculiar. 2016: ‘Spike Milligan on Acid’

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Day 6 2024/19 Chris Cornell Damian Tarnopolsky ‘I think I’m at dinner, but I’m actually at the kids table’ A summer job for an exec brings him to the exotic Francesca. In quiet spaces illicit passions flame over the works of Babel. But he realizes now how little he knew back then.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Day 5 2023/1 Notes on the Craft of Fiction Sam Shelstad ‘Nursing an injured bird back to health will buy you adultery’ An author provides insight to being a successful: use of crazy names, the benefits of blind people and a backpack of basic supplies. Fascinating. Guaranteed literary gold. 😂

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Day 4 2019/18 Amaranth Lauren Geoff ‘She burned, white hot, alone…on the tip of her tongue: I saw’ She witnessed her father die before her. As her mother romances her father’s business partner, she plots her revenge. A cautionary tale of a child’s revenge equal parts chilling and farcical…

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Day 3: 2018/15 Snatching Bodies Rodrigo Fresan ‘Maybe that’s why, now, I tell you about things that I didn’t see, that I couldn’t or didn’t want to see’. Reflecting back on his dying father reveals how classic sci fi films of the 50’s provided solace to an old man.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! You may not hear from me tomorrow as we are off to see Andy Bell! Row 2 no less! I’ll see if I can get a selfie….😂 Don’t miss me to much! 🤩 Chat soon…❤️

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Day 2: 2021/12 Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk Frantz Kafka ‘..this piping of hers is no piping..’ A mouse enchants and gives solace to the masses before her. A more overwrought tale I have not read, producing similar emotions to the back molar extraction I had last month.

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Sleepy Lychee…yes light and fragrant indeed. Much preferred to a so so story. And we are off….🤩 Let’s do it all again tomorrow shall we? 😀

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Day 1: 2017/7 Edna in Rain Marie - Helene Bertino ‘….girls the heft of paper clips’ Edna goes for coffee as her ex’s fall from the sky. Until she meets a smiling stranger sitting on her porch… Confused today. Yet, in 2017 I pondered if this was a tale on fate and emotional baggage. 🧐

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Daily Schedule for December 0630 Happy light on. Read Daily Advent story with David’s Advent tea. 0755 Crack open box for Parallel 49 Daily Advent Beer. Put in fridge. 20:00 Sample said beer. Reflect. I brought down my Advent Boxsets and original notes. Locked and loaded…. Let’s do this. 🤩

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

@barbaramcveigh.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @mrmuleman.bsky.social @brahms1975.bsky.social Clocks aticking… Are ya ready? Day & Night covered. What treasures are awaiting?…😎

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Des @mkcanuck.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Are we are a gang of 5 now? Curiosity killed the Cat….actually it’s FGTH. 😂

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