The meaning of the marriage / Cynthia Flood Madame Hortensia, equilibriste / Marion Engel Cloister / Ann Copeland Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro Presbyterian crosswalk / Barbara Gowdy Voices lost in snow / Mavis Gallant Crush / Bonnie Burnard The midnight hour / Sandra Birdsell Queen of the North / Eden Robinson A garden of her own / Shani Mootoo Leah and Paul, for example / Monique Proulx Harry and Violet / Audrey Thomas Opening night / Helene Rioux Bluebeard's egg / Margaret Atwood No rinsed blue sky, no red flower fences / Dionne Brand She wants to tell me / Diane Schoemperien An easy life / Bronwen Wallace White shoulders / Linda Svendsen Rapid transits / Holley Rubinsky Home for good / Katherine Govier How will I know you? / Elisabeth Harvor Blood and bone / Joyce Marshall Lilian / Jane Rule Till death us do part / Ethel Wilson Secrets / Isabel Huggan Marx and Company / Frances Itani Lucy and Minnie / Shirley Faessler Act of love / Sharon Butala The house that Stan and Rosie built / Margaret Gibson Stroke / Dorothy Speak Hazel / Carol Shields Storm glass / Jane Urquhart