Tag: Montreal

• The Confessional: A Short Story

  An elaborate carved oak confessional sat in a corner of a large and beautiful church. It was the Church of Our Lady of the World in Montreal, the center of Catholic French Canada. There were several confessionals in this cavernous house of worship.  The congregation, holding onto the older ways of the Roman Church, still…

  patrickjegan

  March 24, 2014

  Alternate Endings, North Country Life, Real and Unreal Adventures, Short Fiction

  churches in Montreal, confessionals, confessions, listening devices, love, Montreal, pretty woman in church, priests, rue saint Catherine, short fiction, sinners, Vermont border, would-be stalkers

• The Bubble Man of Montreal

  He was a dream-maker, a writer of love letters and a magician in a black frock coat; he played out his act in the square in front of the Basilique of Notre-Dame in Montreal.  He was like a pilgrim doing his penance, with the Basilique keeping watch on his movements. The man appeared, without seeming…

  patrickjegan

  March 18, 2014

  Real and Unreal Adventures, Travels

  children and soap bubbles, cold wind in Montreal. magician, dreams, love letters, Montreal, Notre-Dame, soap bubbles, symbols.

• A Visit To A Foreign Land

  Life was getting a little repetitious at Rainbow Lake, here in the heart of the Northern Adirondacks.  My office Indoor/Outdoor weather station seemed to be having a battery problem.  The outside temperature indicator sometimes showed no digits at all.  Not wanting to check the red-liquid filled thermometer nailed to the post under the deck, I…

  patrickjegan

  February 24, 2014

  Travels

  canada, Canadians, hot tubs, Kim Karashian, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, WC’s, winter get a way trips