Books with author Harry Smith

Cape Breton Tales by Harry James SmithSummer comes late along the Cape Breton shore; and even while it stays there is something a little diffident and ticklish about it, as if each clear warm day might perhaps be the last. Though by early June the fields are in their first emerald, there are no flowers yet. The little convent girls who carry the banners at the head of the Corpus Christi procession at Arichat wear wreaths of artificial lilies of the valley and marguerites over their white veils, and often enough their teeth chatter with cold before the completion of the long march—out from the church portals westward by the populous street, then up through the steep open fields to the old Calvary on top of the hill, then back to the church along the grass-grown upper road, far above the roofs, in full view of the wide bay.Despite some discomforts, the procession is a very great event; every house along the route is decked out with bunting or flags or a bright home-made carpet, hung from a window. Pots of tall geraniums in scarlet bloom have been set out on the steps; and numbers of little evergreen trees, or birches newly in leaf, have been brought in from the country and bound to the fences. Along the roadside are gathered all the Acadians from the neighboring parishes, devoutly gay, enchanted with the pious spectacle. The choir, following after the richly canopied Sacrament and swinging censers, are chanting psalms of benediction and thanksgiving; banners and flags and veils flutter in the wind; the harbor, ice-bound so many months, is flecked with dancing white-caps and purple shadows: surely summer cannot be far off."When once the ice has done passing down there," they say—"which may happen any time now—you will see! Perhaps all in a day the change will come. The fog that creeps in so cold at night—it will all be sucked up; the sky will be clear as glass down to the very edge of the water. Ah, the fine season it will be!"That is the way summer arrives on the Acadian shore: everything bursting pell-mell into bloom; daisies and buttercups and August flowers rioting in the fields, lilacs and roses shedding their fragrance in sheltered gardens; and over all the world a drench of unspeakable sunlight.You could never forget your first sight of Arichat if you entered its narrow harbor at this divine moment. Steep, low hills, destitute of trees, set a singularly definite sky-line just behind; and the town runs—dawdles, rather—in a thin, wavering band for some miles sheer on the edge of the water. Eight or ten wharves, some of them fallen into dilapidation, jut out at intervals from clumps of weatherbeaten storehouses; and a few small vessels, it may be, are lying up alongside or anchored idly off shore. Only the occasional sound of a creaking block or of a wagon rattling by on the hard roadway breaks the silence.

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Madison Davenport is cheerleading captain, youth leader of her church group, and a perfect student and daughter. She tries to focus on school and paving the path for a great future. But with a little peer pressure, her insecurities lead her down a dangerous road: the road to addiction. She's no longer worried about anything except for chasing her next high. And what started as a fun journey soon becomes a nightmare. Addiction has already taken her innocence and her youth. Now, it's threatening to take her life. Will she make it out alive?

CONTENTS ON THE FRENCH SHORE OF CAPE BRETON (1908) 1 LA ROSE WITNESSETH (1908) 17 OF THE BUCHERONS 19 OF LA BELLE MÉLANIE 32 OF SIMÉON'S SON 44 AT A BRETON CALVAIRE (1903) 57 THE PRIVILEGE (1910) 61 THEIR TRUE LOVE (1910) 77 GARLANDS FOR PETTIPAW (1915) 99 FLY, MY HEART (1915) 119ON THE FRENCH SHORE OF CAPE BRETONSummer comes late along the Cape Breton shore; and even while it staysthere is something a little diffident and ticklish about it, as if eachclear warm day might perhaps be the last. Though by early June thefields are in their first emerald, there are no flowers yet. The littleconvent girls who carry the banners at the head of the Corpus Christiprocession at Arichat wear wreaths of artificial lilies of the valleyand marguerites over their white veils, and often enough their teethchatter with cold before the completion of the long march--out from thechurch portals westward by the populous street, then up through thesteep open fields to the old Calvary on top of the hill, then back tothe church along the grass-grown upper road, far above the roofs, infull view of the wide bay.Despite some discomforts, the procession is a very great event; everyhouse along the route is decked out with bunting or flags or a brighthome-made carpet, hung from a window. Pots of tall geraniums in scarletbloom have been set out on the steps; and numbers of little evergreentrees, or birches newly in leaf, have been brought in from the countryand bound to the fences. Along the roadside are gathered all theAcadians from the neighboring parishes, devoutly gay, enchanted withthe pious spectacle. The choir, following after the richly canopiedSacrament and swinging censers, are chanting psalms of benediction andthanksgiving; banners and flags and veils flutter in the wind; theharbor, ice-bound so many months, is flecked with dancing white-caps andpurple shadows: surely summer cannot be far off."When once the ice has done passing _down there_," they say--"which mayhappen any time now--you will see! Perhaps all in a day the change willcome. The fog that creeps in so cold at night--it will all be sucked up;the sky will be clear as glass down to the very edge of the water. Ah,the fine season it will be!"

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The stories in Floodlands are very loosely tied together by a water motif, its destructive as well as reformative impact. Actual floods, semen, alcohol, and so forth…In the stories where actual water images are not apparent, a sense arises of civilizations on the verge of breakage and renewal. Here too, styles and voices vary widely. For example, there are two “short stories in the form of a screenplay” and one “short story in the form of a radio play.”Larry Smith has published fiction, poetry, and a variety of nonfiction in literary journals throughout the world. His 2016 novella Patrick Fitzmike and Mike Fitzpatrick (Outlook 19) traverses the political, sexual, and spiritual terrain of the modern Catholic Church. A former business journalist with thousands of bylines, and retired executive of a public relations and crisis management firm, Smith grew up in Cleveland and migrated to New York in the late 1960s. He is currently compiling a third collection of stories called High and Dry as well as a collection of hybrid nonfictions entitled Nicole Simpson: The Untold Story.