The eclectic stories in this anthology speak to our changing climate and degrading environment—the transformation of our world from green to grey. Some stories are sardonic, treating environmental icons and self-serving rhetoricians equally. Others are whimsical, even bitterly so, and some are sweetly poetic. But their messages are the same: it is time to act.

Ian Thomas Shaw is the author of two novels: Soldier, Lily, Peace and Pearls (DeuxVoiliers Publishing) and Quill of the Dove (Guernica Editions). Choosing Eleonore (Guernica Editions 2021) is his first translation from French to English. Shaw was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. For 34 years, he worked as a diplomat and as an international development worker, living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He currently lives in Aylmer, Quebec. He is also the founder of Deux Voiliers Publishing, the Prose in the Park Literary Festival and the Ottawa Review of Books.

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Timothy P. Niedermann is a graduate of Kenyon College and attended the Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet in Freiburg, Germany. He also holds a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School. A professional editor for most of his career, Mr. Niedermann has edited magazines, books, and scholarly journals and has dealt with subject matter ranging from sports to law to public policy to celebrity biography. He has been a Bass Writing Tutor at Yale University and taught communications at McGill University. He is the author of two novels: A Purer Evil and Wall of Dust. A native New Englander by birth, he divides his time between Bethany, Connecticut, and Montreal, Quebec.

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