• Age: 15 to 18
• Grade: 10 to 12

From the marshy lands by the sea emanates a strange, disturbing story, lurking in the memory of a timeless storyteller. The story of a man and a woman expecting a child.

As she holds her newborn son in her arms, the young mother feels her heart leave her chest. From that moment on, she sinks into the meanders of a visceral love and gradually loses her humanity. She watches over her son like a wounded bear, while her husband watches helplessly as his wife is transformed.

Also available in French under the title Le cœursidé.

Elizabeth Blanchard worked as a pharmacist for fourteen years before her interest in literature eventually led to a career change. Her short fiction has appeared in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. Member of the Board of Directors for the Frye Festival, she also co-edited Cadence: voix féminines females voices (2020, Frog Hollow Press) and was assistant fiction editor for The Antigonish Review. She won the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick literary competition for short fiction and was a 2021 finalist for the David Adams Richards Prize.

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Nancy King Schofield is a poet and visual artist. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from Mount Allison University in 1991 and has since presented over a hundred art exhibitions. She won the Loomis and Toles Award for painting from Mount Allison and an award at the Festival des arts visuels en Atlantique in Caraquet (2001). She also won first place in the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Writing Competition (2010). She co-founded the groups Breach House Gang (1999) and Women Who Write (2016), which consist of published writers and artists who continue to meet every month.

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