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Richard Laviolette — All Wild Things Are Shy (You’ve Changed)

Richard Laviolette’s last album weighs a ton, emotionally. From the first ripped-ragged guitar chords of “Milkweek and Motherwort” to the closing lift of “Constant Love,” these songs reach deep into the gut for the real stuff: the moving power of music, the companionship of other people, the certainty of death someday and of life right now. Laviolette didn’t have time for superficiality. He wrote this album near the end of the five-year gap between his mother’s death from Huntington’s disease and his own. It is a harrowing document, full of courage and defiance and human connection.

The music has a hard country kick and a fevered yowl that places it somewhere among the Mekons, Uncle Tupelo, Neil Young and the Replacements. “Ragged stray, I was on my own, I was saved by rock ‘n roll,” howls Laviolette, against a dirge drone of organ punched blood by drums. It’s a confession, a baptism, a Job-like agony. It rages and lurches and batters the sides of the righteous cage of its melodies.

Laviolette is no generalist. He calls out, by name, the music that inspires him, “George and Tammy, Bob’s the king, Nashville sound and Western Swing,” in “Constant Love,” the outlaw country king and queen in “Carter and Cash.” And even when he’s not giving the nod in the lyrics, Laviolette expresses his love. The clangor of the guitars in “Milkweed” all but pledges fealty to Neil Young.  There’s a nod to Magnolia Electric Co. in “Catacombs.” This is a guy who spent an all-too-short life listening and playing and appreciating music, and he wasn’t about to stop just because he was under a death sentence.

You have to think about what it would mean to watch your mother succumb to an awful disease and know that the same would happen to you. The kind of courage it would take just to get up in the morning is hard to fathom. To make a record, a good one like this, with your hands growing clumsy and your mind fading in and out is unimaginable. “Don’t quit on me,” Laviolette sings in a wavery voice whose imperfections encapsulate the human struggle against failing flesh. He’s singing to himself as much as anyone, but we can all take some courage from it. This is a gorgeous album even if you set the backstory aside, but when you consider that, it’s truly remarkable.

Jennifer Kelly

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Historical romance with doggy style, please 🙈

Lol I got you. I love a good doggy scene in a sweeping beautiful love story lmao. I feel like doggy style is often written on the page (and onscreen) as being like... less connected or whatever, but I don't know, I think we need more of it, fictionally and probably societally.

(Not all of these are true blue doggy, I shall specify when I can remember)

It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas--I think technically it's a "stomach to the mattress" moment versus true hands and knees doggy, but Lisa's big twist to sex scenes is usually the hero flipping the heroine onto her stomach lol. I really like this one because it feels very true to Westcliff and Lillian's dynamic. Specifically, "and you called ME a savage".

Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas--Obviously Derek Craven fucks Sara from behind idk why anyone would think otherwise

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare--The famous "fuck her over the desk while making her say his courtesy titles" scene. It's GREAT.

The Truth About Cads and Dukes by Elisa Braden--Another "fuck her over a desk" scene, albeit of the more "emotionally tormented" variety.

Any Duke in a Storm by Amalie Howard out 1/9--This has a doggy scene and I think additionally face sitting, and so much fun great stuff. I think at one point he comes grinding against her ass. Which we need to see more of in romance, tbh.

The Duke's Perfect Wife by Jennifer Ashley--Pretty sure this has doggy with light bondage.

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare--It's been foreeever but I'm pretty sure this has it.

Joss and The Countess by S.M. LaViolette--Not only does it have this, but it has this and it is SO. FUCKING. HOT. Like this is a ridiculously hot book, I don't think I give it enough credit. I think he spanks her during? Not sure. More of that in historicals please.

Olivia and The Masked Duke by Grace Callaway--Pretty sure this has it. As does Fiona and the Enigmatic Earl. I mean, most Callaways. Grace writes REALLY good sex scenes, y'all, and is also one of the only historical romance writers I've read who has butt stuff in a lot of her books.

Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall--Has doggy with pegging :)

The Recruit by Monica McCarty--The heroine definitely sees him fucking someone else doggy style in the beginning (that said, it's all about him and the heroine... He doesn't come until they make eye contact and she's suuuuper into it). Pretty sure they also do it later due to... changes in her physique.

The Chief by Monica McCarty--The hero being really into fucking her from behind is literally a plot point lol

The Wolf and The Wallflower by Stacy Reid--I mean. He literally operates like a wolf. Fuck yeah he does it doggy

Never Met a Duke Like You by Amalie Howard--Bends her over in front of a dinosaur skeleton, iN PUBLIC no less

The Duke in Question by Amalie Howard--Heroine loses her virginity bent over against a tree

When a Girl Loves an Earl by Elisa Braden--The "PUT YER FILTHY SCOT INSIDE YE" scene (I have absolutely zero ragrets re: my love of it)

Scandal's Bride by Stephanie Laurens--Laurens heroes often LOVE hitting it from the back. But I don't know if I've yet read any that are quite as committed to it as Richard, who fucks Catriona like 72 times in this novel, with many of those times being when he has her on her hands and knees or otherwise bent over.

A Rake's Vow by Stephanie Laurens--Pretty sure this happens or a variation of it at least when Patience follows Vane into the solarium to confront him about him seeing another woman, to which he goes "that's my niece actually" while locking the doors, and when she's all "why are you locking the doors" he's like "IT'S A SOLARIUM" because all Cynster heroes know they're in a romance novel

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can you recommend good enemies to lovers hr like TVWLM and It Happened One Autumn

Yup! I've organized it from cutesy enemies to would-kill-you-if-needed enemies.

The Viscount Always Knocks Twice by Grace Callaway: If you liked TVWLM and IHOA, you'll love this: Violet is a sporty, spirited gal who doesn't like Richard because he's uptight and a killjoy (Viscount Killjoy, that is), and Richard dislikes Violet because he thinks she's a shallow flirt who's trying to entrap his brother. The high point in their enemy era was her shoving him into a dyed-red champagne fountain at a ball after he taunted her spelling skills. But like 4 chapters later, they can't keep their hands off each other. In priest holes. In magic cabinets. In rando's rooms after discovering nipple clamps. Classic Grace excellence.

Sutton's Surrender by Scarlett Scott: Pretty similar in vibes to the previous rec actually: Penelope is friends with the hero's brother Aiden, who wants to marry her just to piss his aristocratic family off (her family runs a gambling hell). The hero, Garrick (aka Lord Lordly), is a deeply repressed uptight man who basically storms into Penelope's house and calls her a slutty fortune hunter. Scarlett, as per usual, more does an excellent job of writing a man just getting so unhinged over the heroine, and and that moment that *breaks* them is always a pleasure to read.

Sidenote: Garrick has a KITTY. Her name is Rosebud and she's ADORABLE and it's hella hot of him to have a cat tbh.

His Countess by S.M. LaViolette: Gideon unexpectedly inherits the earldom that Alys's husband once held. Gideon is a slutty slutty man, so obviously he thinks Alys is a prudish thin-blooded aristocrat (he just calls her a bitch; I'm being nicer), and she dislikes him because, well, he's a slut and disgustingly nouveau riche. If you wanna see a hero banging a lot of women who are not the heroine (obviously before he bangs the heroine a lot), here's the book for you! Alys does a loooooot of voyeuring (he catches on real fast and pretty much puts on a show for her lolol) before they actually go at it.

Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase: Jess thinks Dain is a debauched man leading her brother astray, and Jess's voice gives Dain Etonian trauma-induced flashbacks. The (sexual) tension between them is so insane all of Paris is waiting with bated breath, and it does come to a head: He ruins her and refuses to marry her. She shoots him. Then she tries to make the police arrest her so she can spill every dirty secret about Dain (for example, his habit of saying really simpy shit in Italian— "baciami Jess, abbracciami" haunts me to this day) in a court of law. The extent this woman is willing to go to ruin his life is FABULOUS.

Heartless Duke by Scarlett Scott: Okay, we're veering into actual political enemy territory from here on out. This is Victorian England. Leo leads a secret branch of the Home Office in charge of rooting out Irish "insurrectionists". Bridget is an Irish insurrectionist. He shoots her in the arm (to be fair... she did turn a gun on a 10 year old), and when she wakes up, he's chained her to a bed. He does bathe her at some point. He calls her "banshee" (affectionate). And eventually does tie her up for real. A+

The Ghost by Monica McCarty: This is set in Medieval Britain. Joan Comyn is a Mata Hari-esque spy for Robert the Bruce in England (as in, she "seduces" men for information). Alex is ordered to root out this spy. On top of everything, Joan's reputation kinda precedes her because of her (fake) seductions so Alex thinks she's a bit of a slut, but obviously that doesn't stop him from going for her. I'd strongly recommend reading the rest of the Highland Guard series (especially because Joan's mom Bella is a pretty badass heroine herself) before getting to this one.

The Viking's Concubine by Caitlin Crews: If you'd like a more detailed summary, see here. The gist of it is, Ulfric and Ethine have an M/s relationship, but Ethine is Ulfric's literal slave because this is Viking Britain and slavery was practiced back then, so there is... a natural enmity, if not very dubious consent here (to clarify, he doesn't physically force her, but the very nature of their relationship is dubious). On top of that, Ethine ran away from Ulfric prior to the start of the book, and now that he's found her again, he is... not happy. It's very well written, and very erotic.

The Conquering of Tate the Pius by Sierra Simone: This is a part of the Villain I'd Like To F... anthology. Tate is the abbess at Far Hope Abbey during the time of the Norman invasion of England. Adelais is a Norman warlord (warlady?) come to take over the abbey, and Tate offers her three nights of sex in exchange for leaving the abbey and its inhabitants alone. They do veer into rough sex, some consensual non-consent, oh, and a dagger hilt is employed. It's beautifully written, which is on par for Sierra.

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Leaf: I would like to learn more about the fae, could you tell me where a good place to start would be? maybe book recommendations? or specific fairy tales to look into? thank you so much

Ah, welcome. It is always good to see those who wish to broaden their knowledge of the old stories.As to the Fae, it depends on what you’re looking for. You see, the Folk did not arise from a singular instance of Mythology, but from an amalgamation of many cultural traditions and stories. For Ireland we have the Tuatha de Danann and their battles against the Fir Bolg and eventually become the Aos Sidhe. There are the Welsh Tylwyth Teg who steal fair haired children from their beds and leave changelings in their place.The Scottish hold great pride in their Seelie and Unseelie courts, while the Scandinavian people whisper fearfully of Trolls, Gnomes, Shapeshifters, Wights, and Werewolves.Will you look to the Norse for stories of Light Elfs, Dwarfs, and Disir? Or to the Germanic Wichtlein who aided miners, and are one of the distant precursors to both the Goblins and Dwarfs we imagine today?Or would you prefer to move forward to the Victorian age where Fae were brought together to diminutive sprites and fanciful little magics that you might find in Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or the Faerie Queene?It really depends on what you’re trying to find. The Lore of the Fae is vast and encompasses the traditions of many different European cultures, each unique and important in its own way. I can include below a full list of all the sources I happen to possess at this time. Hopefully they will grant your desire of providing an excellent place with which to begin your research.

Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies. 1691. Reprint, London: D. Nutt, 1893.

Wilby, Emma. “The Witch's Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland.” Folklore, vol. 111, no. 2, 2000, pp. 283–305. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1260607.

Vejvoda, Kathleen. “‘Too Much Knowledge of the Other World’: Women and Nineteenth-Century Irish Folktales.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 32, no. 1, 2004, pp. 41–61. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25058651.

Nutt, Alfred. “Presidential Address. Britain and Folklore.” Folklore, vol. 10, no. 1, 1899, pp. 71–86. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1253611.

Goodare, Julian. “The Cult of the Seely Wights in Scotland.” Folklore, vol. 123, no. 2, 2012, pp. 198–219., www.jstor.org/stable/41721541.

Briggs, Katharine Mary (1976). "Euphemistic names for fairies". An Encyclopedia of Fairies. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 127. ISBN 0-394-73467-X.

Rossetti, Christina G, and Martin Ware. Goblin Market. London: V. Gollancz, 1980. Print.

Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915. Lady Audley's Secret. New York :Federal Book Company, 18ADAD. Print.

Frazer J.G. (1983) Sympathetic Magic. In: The Golden Bough. Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Yeats, William Butler. “The Stolen Child.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.uvu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prf&AN=76614684&site=eds-live.

Spenser, Edmund, Thomas P. Roche, and C P. O'Donnell. The Faerie Queene. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. Print. 

Gregory, Lady, and Finn MacCumhaill. Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of Tuatha de Danann and of the Fianna of Ireland. John Murray, 1905.

Howard, Marvin ElRoy. "" See ya na yon narrow road?": the search for Elfland in folklore of the Scottish border." (1996).

Campbell, John Gregorson. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. J. MacLehose and sons, 1900.

Diane Purkiss, At The Bottom Of The Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things (2000)

Kready, Laura (1916). A Study of Fairy Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 

“Trees in Mythology”. Mythencyclopedia.com. 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2014-05-11. 

“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain–By Hannah Priest”. September 8, 2011. 

Lenihan, Eddie and Green, Carolyn Eve (2004) Meeting The Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland. pp. 146–7 ISBN 1-58542-206-1. 

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Evans Wentz, W. Y. (1966, 1990) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe Humanities Press ISBN 0-901072-51-6

De Jubainville, M. H. D'Arbois and Richard Irvine Best (1903). The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology. Dublin Hodges, Figgis, and Company.

Keightley, Thomas. (1892) Fairy Mythology. London: George Bell & Sons, Retrieved from Project Gutenberg 15 October 2017

King James. Daemonologie. A Critical Edition. In Modern English. 2016. ISBN 1-5329-6891-4.

Williams, Noel. “The semantics of the word fairy: making meaning out of thin air.” The Good People: new fairylore essays (1991): 457-78. 

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Wakefield, Sarah R. Folklore in British Literature: Naming and Narrating in Women’s Fiction, 1750-1880. Vol. 80. Peter Lang, 2006.

Laviolette, Patrick, and Alastair McIntosh. “Fairy hills: merging heritage and conservation.” Ecos 18.¾ (1997): 2-8. 

Owen, Alex. “'Borderland Forms’: Arthur Conan Doyle, Albion’s Daughters, and the Politics of the Cottingley Fairies.” History Workshop, no. 38, 1994, pp. 48–85.

Zipes, Jack. Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves. Routledge, 2016. 

Silver, Carole. “On the Origin of Fairies: Victorians, Romantics, and Folk Belief.” Victorian Literature and Culture 14 (1986): 141-156.

Harms, Daniel M. “Hell and Fairy: The Differentiation of Fairies and Demons Within British Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period.” Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018. 55-77. 

Sikes, Wirt. British goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions. S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880. 

Loponen, Mika. “Faerie Folklore in Medieval Tales-An Introduction.” (2006). 

Lindow, John. Norse mythology: a guide to gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs. Oxford University Press, 2002. 

Gimbel, Jared Joseph. “Spiritual Descent: A Study of Semi-Divine Beings and Non-Human Species in European Mythologies.” (2011).

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm

John Bauers Bästa: Ett Urval Sagor Ur "bland Tomtar Och Troll" Åren 1907-1915. Stockholm: Åhlén & Åkerlund, 1951. Print.

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Richard Laviolette

Richard Laviolette Taking The Long Way Home (2017) … music to soothe the soul …

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Kreative Kontrol – Ep. #305: Richard Laviolette

Kreative Kontrol – Ep. #305: Richard Laviolette

Richard Laviolette is a very talented singer, songwriter, and musician from Guelph, Ontario. Originally from Tara, Ontario in Bruce County, Laviolette has been making some of the most affecting, outspoken, and catchy folk and rock music to emerge in this century. His new album is a lovely and reflective one called Taking the Long Way Home, which is out March 10 on You’ve Changed Records. Here,…

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CANTLON: HARTFORD WOLF PACK OFF SEASON VOL 8

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT -  The Hartford Wolf Pack and New York Rangers are working hard developing their roster for the 2022-2023 season but joined other teams in congratulating the Colorado Avalanche for gaining the 2021-2022 Lord Stanley Cup. A few local notables got to grip the Cup. They include ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger Devon Toews, who played at Quinnipiac University. He becomes the first Bobcaever to hold hockey’s golden chalice. He is the third Sound Tiger after Eric Godard (2009 Pittsburgh), who was the first to do it. Carter Verhaeghe (2020 Tampa Bay)s, now with the Florida Panthers, was the second. Ken MacDermid, the son of ex-Hartford Whaler Paul MacDermid, and Bowen Byram, the son of former Springfield Indin, Shawn Byram, also have their name on the Cup. Also as part of the winners is Colorado head coach Jared Bednar. He is a former Springfield Falcons coach. His assistant, Nolan Pratt, is an ex-Beast of New Haven, Hartford Whaler, and Springfield Falcon player and coach. AHL CALDER CUP For the third time in the Chicago Wolves' history, the team captured the AHL title and their fifth minor league title in 25 years (two IHL Turner Cups in 1998 & 2000). The team went 14-4 in the postseason to win the championship in five games over the Springfield Thunderbirds. The Wolves outscored the Thunderbirds 18-4 after losing game one as they plowed through with four straight wins in six days. The championship game was a 4-0 shutout and the first twin shutouts in the finals in 22 years. In the team's championship picture, the AHL suspended Ex-Yale Bulldog Alex Lyon for two games for a two-hand flipping-off of the Springfield crowd, who razzed him all game long. The 29-year-old goalie is a likely Euro candidate. But, should he be signed with another club next year at the beginning of next season, he'll sit out two games after making a Frankie Lessard impression with a two-finger salute done in a late-season game (April 15, 2007) in Portland, Maine, BEFORE the second period started in a scrap with another ex-Pack Trevor Gillies, with then captain Craig Weller at his side. Hartford head coach and GM, the retired Jim Schoenfeld, eventually broke up the battle by wading through a maze of players before a full-scale brawl erupted. MORE ON THE CALDER CUP With 15 goals and 29 points, Josh Leivo won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy playoff MVP with the third highest playoff point total in AHL history. Bill McDougall's unbeatable 52-point performance in 1993 with the Cape Breton Oilers will be forever #1, and Hubie McDonough’s 31 in 1989 with the New Haven Nighthawks, the record McDougall shattered. Jack Drury, son of ex-Hartford Whaler Ted Drury and the nephew of the Rangers President/GM Chris Drury, acquitted himself very well with a 24-point effort (nine goals) in 18 games. The third best on the Wolves team and in the league will get a long look at training camp. Ex-Pack Joey Keane had a good run and deserved a shot up top. Richard Pánik, the ex-Bridgeport Islander, acquired at the trade deadline, got his second Calder Cup (Norfolk 2012) and will likely get another North American offer next year. The Wolves became the third Carolina-affiliated team to capture a Calder Cup. They did it in Charlotte in 2019, as the Whalers affiliate in Springfield, and again in Springfield in 1991, so ironic they won it in Springfield at the Mass Mutual Center, then known as the Springfield Civic Center. This win marked the first Calder Cup awarded in three years because of the pandemic. Former Sacred Heart University player Ryan Warsofsky became the youngest coach to win a Calder Cup. He surpasses Peter Laviolette. It was his second Championship behind the bench. His first came as an assistant in Charlotte. A DEEP TEAM Two players acquired at the trade deadline are both ex-Pack players, Chris Bigras from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Wolf Pack’s Tarmo Reunanen (exchanged for UCONN alum Max Letunov). Unfortunately, he didn’t play one game in the postseason. Reunanen wasted little time after the season ended skedaddling back to Finland to play for Lukko Rauma next year. He played on the third defensive pair in Hartford. Now Bigras will likely be among the next batch to go to Europe. PLAYER MOVES Despite being Florida property, last season, Springfield’s captain, Simsbury resident Tommy Cross (Westminster Prep), was signed by St. Louis the day after the season ended. Despite being just 25 miles from Hartford has never been signed by the Wolf Pack or offered a contract. All his past and present teammates have raved about his leadership skills. He’s been out of the New England area just three times in his playing career as a youth with the Ohio Jr. Blue Jackets (USHL); in his first pro year, he played half a season with South Carolina Stingrays (ECHL) and one season with the Cleveland Monsters (Columbus) as an AHL free agent. He has been a New England regional fixture playing at BC in college and Providence in his early AHL years. MEMORIAL CUP The Saint John (NB) Sea Dogs, the Memorial Cup host team, and a long shot at upending the Hamilton Bulldogs, did so in a 5-3 win. Future Bridgeport Islander William Dufour won the Memorial Cup Stafford Smythe MVP with a goal and an assist in the championship win. 39 days after firing head coach former Pack, Ranger, and Springfield Falcon Gordie Dwyer and his entire staff, including his assistant ex-New Haven Nighthawk Paul Boutilier, after a first-round QMJHL President Cup playoff first-round loss exit to Rimouski, they’re crowned champions. They won with an interim head coach in UNB’s Gardiner MacDougall. He had won the Canadian University championship a few months ago, and he acidly replied after the win, while being interviewed by TSN, "I’m glad I picked up the phone.” The Sea Dogs advanced with an improbable semifinal win against the QMJHL Shawinigan Cataractes. They built a first-period 3-0 lead. Dufour then showed why he was the QMJHL scoring champ firing off a natural hat trick and four total in the first ten minutes of the second period to secure a 5-3 come-from-behind win. Dufour already has signed his three-year entry-level contract (ELC) and will likely start next year in BridgeportHowever, heHe is still WJC eligible and was a finalist for the CHL David Branch Player of the Year Award. Hamilton upended Shawinigan 4-3 in overtime in the semifinal’s victory. He snatched what seemed to be a narrow win by Shawinigan, who scored late before Jan Mysak (Montreal) ended their dreams. Saint John, the host city, was the home crowd favorite. They became the first QMJHL team since Saint John in 2011 to win the championship in thy last hockey game in North America this season. AND MORE Ex-UCONN defenseman Yan Kuznetsov (Calgary), who missed a wide-open net late in the second, a year removed from Storrs, and undrafted captain Vincent Sévigny, the son of ex-Pack Pierre Sévigny, played his very last junior game both got to hoist the Cup and he scored in the first two minutes of the game. At the QMJHL annual holiday mid-season trading deadline, Victoriaville acquired Sévigny. One other CT connection was winger Cameron MacDonald, a Nova Scotia native from the Selects Academy at South Kent Prep U-15 team, and one game with the CT Jr. Rangers (NCDC) scored in the contest. There were several finalists for Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Awards. Incoming Wolf Pack Dylan Garand (Kamloops-WHL) for Goalie of Year won the award. Coach of the Year honors went to former Springfield King Brian Kilrea Award, a legendary OHL coach, one of the finalists was former Ranger/Whaler James Patrick of the WHL Winnipeg Ice. CHL IMPORT DRAFT Before CHL Draft occurred before the NHL made their selections, only 27 players were chosen out of the 120 slots. One move made before the draft was the rights of Brad Lambert, nephew of former Nighthawks player and Sound Tiger head coach and now the Islanders head coach Lane Lambert was traded by the Saskatoon Blades, who took him in the 2020 Import DraftThen, they were traded to the Seattle (WA) Thunderbirds. He is eligible for next week’s 2022 NHL Draft and is likely to be taken in the top ten picks. Next year is his last junior-eligible season for the Finnish forward. His cousin Jimmy is signed to start next year in Bridgeport. PLAYER AND COACHING MOVEMENT The Florida Panthers signed former Whaler head coach Paul Maurice. The Pack’s Anthony Greco signed with Frölunda HC (Sweden-SHL) for next year. Bridgeport Islander Aatu Räty finished the year in Park City with a solid eight-game audition (two regular season and six playoff games). This follows a stellar Finnish season between Kärpät Oulu and Jukerit. He is one of four Islander Finnish prospects invited to the Finnish camp to try to be on the WJC team for the redux event scheduled for August 9-20. The four include Räty, Eetu Liukas, Matias Rajaniemi and a long shot is Aleksei Malinen. The Rangers have forward Kalle Väisänen from TPS Turku. The US will open up against Germany on August 9th. Latvia was added to the tournament to replace a banned Russian team because of the invasion of Ukraine. All players eligible for WJC in December can play even if they have turned 21 in the eight months preceding the tournament. All games will be played at Rogers Place in Edmonton, and the WJC 2023 tourney will be played in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick, next year. All WJC Games will be on the NHL Network. MORE MOVES Ex-Pack Darren Raddysh signs a two-year, two-way contract extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning paying $750K-$775K-NHL/$250K-AHL. Current teammate and another ex-Pack, Sean Day, gets a one-year extension in Syracuse and a nice raise to a two-way deal for $750K-NHL/$200K-AHL. Mathieu Olivier, the son of former New Haven Knights Simon Olivier, was traded from the Nashville Predators to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a fourth-round draft pick. Former Avon Old Farms Winged Beaver, Nick Hutchison, who wandered the hockey map last year with Adirondack (ECHL) and after a brief stay with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and half of a year with the Manitoba Moose and former UCONN Husky and fellow Adirondack Thunder (ECHL) himself, Jarrod Gourley both sign one-year AHL deals with Utica. Ex-Pack Patrick Newell departs Sterjen (Norway-NEL) for Fehérvár AV19 (Hungary-IceHL) next season. Ex-Pack Shawn “Odie” O’Donnell heads from Dornbirner EC (Austria-IceHL) to EHC Freiburg (Germany DEL-2). Ex-Pack Danny Kristo heads from Västerviks IK (Sweden Allsvenskan to HK Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL). He started last year at HC Kladno (Czech Republic-CEL) (Czechia), the Jaromir Jagr owned team he still plays for. Another ex-Pack, Simon Denis, comes back to North America from the Tokohu Free Blades (Japan-ALIH) and signs with Toledo (ECHL). EVEN MORE MOVES Patrick Harper (New Canaan/Avon Old Farms) heads from HPK Hameelina (Finland-FEL) to Mora IK (Sweden-SHL). He started last year in Milwaukee. Phillip Samuelsson, the eldest son of former Whaler/Ranger and assistant coach at Avon Old Farms and the Wolf Pack, leaves Oskarshamn IK (Sweden-SHL) and skates over to Fischtown (Germany-DEL). Ex-Pack/Sound Tiger Joe Whitney, who had the shortest reign as a Pack team captain (two days faster than Cole Schneider) for half a season, hangs them up after a four-year career in Europe with the Iserlohn Roosters (Germany-DEL) after starting in Finland. Ex-Sound Tiger Matt Donovan leaves for Europe again after departing Milwaukee for Adler Mannheim (Germany-DEL) next year. Ex-Sound Tiger Josh Winquist, who split last year between Reading (ECHL) and Allen (ECHL), departs from the Allen (TX) Americans for HC Dukla Michalovce (Slovakia-SLEL). Reunanen joins 33 AHL’ers that have signed in Europe and the first American or AHL’er to sign in Russia defenseman Randy Murphy from Grand Rapids. STILL MORE D3 college commits Kevin MacKay from Aberdeen (NAHL) commits to Trinity College (NESCAC) of Hartford, and Bailey Irwin of Stouffville and Burlington (OJHL) heads to Albertus Magnus (NCAA I independent) in New Haven. One of the state's most prestigious public high school programs has a new coach. Hamden hired just their sixth bench boss in school history in just retired former West  Haven special education school teacher Bill Reynolds. Reynolds, 70, is a former two-time champion at the school in his youth, and his brothers both played there. He coached at the Division II level at Cheshire and Guilford. He has ALWAYS wanted to coach Hamden and is fulfilling à lifelong goal and dream. He wanted the job when Bill Veneris got the job over thirty years ago. He replaces ex-Pack Todd Hall, who stepped down after twenty years back in April. A usually plumb job in high school circles both in Hamden and West Haven, but both schools are experiencing dwindling player numbers, and both could shockingly become co-op programs in a few years. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

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Capitals rout Sabres for fifth straight win as Vitek Vanecek records first shutout

“He’s played really well for us,” Coach Peter Laviolette said. “I’ve said it before: He’s given us a chance to win on a nightly basis. He’s done a really good job. . . . Our guys were really happy for him.”

The Capitals capped the win with Alex Ovechkin’s 717th NHL goal, a strike that came on the 35-year-old’s final shift of the night. The captain’s 11th goal of the season, and his fourth in his past five games, tied him with Phil Esposito for sixth on the all-time list. Marcel Dionne (731) is up next on the list at fifth all-time.

“It’s nice to be in this company,” Ovechkin said. “I just do what I have to do. I try to use my chances and move on.”

Washington (18-6-4, 40 points) has won five straight games and nine of its past 10. It has also scored at least five goals in four straight games. Those streaks will be put to the test Tuesday when the Capitals host the New York Islanders, who have won nine straight to surge to the top of the East Division.

The last-place Sabres, meanwhile, extended their skid to 11 games (0-9-2).

The Capitals dominated from the start Monday and took a 4-0 lead into the final period thanks to goals from Evgeny Kuznetsov in the first period and Nicklas Backstrom, Richard Panik and Daniel Sprong in the second. When Panik scored at 5:59 to push the lead to 3-0, the Sabres had just three shots on Vanecek.

Buffalo had only nine shots on goal in the first 40 minutes. The Capitals scored three goals in 11 shots in an assertive middle frame.

Garnet Hathaway made it 5-0 off Justin Schultz’s point shot at 6:46 of the third period before Ovechkin capped the scoring at 16:21.

“Tonight was an important game for us,” Ovechkin said. “Obviously, we’re trying to collect as many points as we can. Obviously, we knew they have a tough situation, but for us we just have to collect the points and move forward.”

The Capitals’ winning streak has come without winger Tom Wilson, who is serving a seven-game suspension for boarding Boston defenseman Brandon Carlo on March 5. Wilson is eligible to return Saturday against the New York Rangers after he sits out two more games.

The Capitals have also been without Lars Eller for most of the past three games. He missed Monday’s game because of a lower-body injury suffered late in the first period of Saturday’s 5-4 win at Philadelphia. Before skating just 1:29 on Saturday, the third-line center was also a late scratch from Thursday’s 5-3 win in Philadelphia because of a family matter, and he was not at the morning skate Saturday.

Without Eller and Wilson, the Capitals had to go with 11 forwards and seven defensemen in their lineup Monday. Trevor van Riemsdyk dressed for the first time since Feb. 7.

Kuznetsov opened the scoring at 18:46 with a long-range goal just after the Capitals’ first power-play chance expired. The goal was the center’s third of the season — his second at even strength — and his first since Feb. 14. It gave Kuznetsov 400 career points, making him the 18th player in franchise history to reach the mark.

Backstrom started the second-period barrage at 2:41 with his 11th goal after he put in the rebound of T.J. Oshie’s shot.

Oshie created the opportunity. He was able to get past a struggling Rasmus Dahlin on the right wall and made a slick move to get past Dahlin’s defensive partner, Colin Miller, as he was driving to the net. Once goaltender Carter Hutton stopped Oshie’s initial drive, Backstrom collected the rebound for the easy score.

Panik made it 3-0 after he cruised into the slot by himself and sniped a one-timer past Hutton. Dmitry Orlov recorded his first assist of the season with his cross-ice feed from the left side of the ice. Sprong made it 4-0 at 15:07, beating Hutton on a breakaway for his third goal in four games and his sixth of the season. Sprong is filling Wilson’s spot in the lineup.

Vanecek, who improved to ­12-5-3, got the start after Ilya Samsonov, who has won all four of his starts since recovering from a bout with covid-19, made consecutive starts for the first time all season against Philadelphia. Samsonov made 28 saves Saturday for his third win against the Flyers in seven days.

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This is a clip from November's extra Patreon-exclusive bonus episode which is a deep dive on the 2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers season. In this clip, Ryan and Arash look back at Claude Giroux's incredible start to game 6 of the first round of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal, which saw a big hit, a huge goal and one eyebrow raising comment from Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette 

Ryan and Arash bring you a BONUS bonus episode for November! They take a deep dive into the rollercoaster ride that was the 2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers. 

From Chris Pronger being named captain to playing his last game in a span of two months, Carter and Richards being traded from 'Dry Island' to the incredible emergence of Claude Giroux, the boys cover it all!

They look back to HBO 24/7 covering the team's road to the Winter Classic and profile the Flyers/Penguins rivalry that got extremely heated towards the end of the season.

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Favorite sm lavoilette offerings so far??

Hmmmm

So I'm on the 8th book I've read by her, and none of them have been below a 4/5 tbh. I really enjoy the LaViolette~ brand, though I will of course be reading more Minerva Spencer too (I've 3? of her books I think, all good, but you can of course tell a difference between her trad stuff and her indie stuff).

I'll just rank the books I've read so far.

Hyacinth--I just found this incredibly hot and entertaining. I love a book that's all about a casual relationship becoming more against everyone's will, and I really found myself adoring Hyacinth. The way her neurodivergence was portrayed really resonated with me. And SYLVESTER! Such a great hero. Scarred, slutty, deeply in love but doesn't want to cop to it. And they're switches! I really love switches in romance. You get to have a bit of both. Everyone is happy.

Joss and The Countess--UGH. HOT. EMOTIONAL. This really is, though, one of the hottest historicals I've ever read. But in an angsty way. But in a funny way. Like, Joss and Alicia are both very practical, down to earth people who've been hardened by the world, but they act like total idiots with each other because LOVE. And I really dig that. I gotta say.

The Footman--YOU PLAYED YOURSELF, the book. Revenge fantasy turned grovel fantasy. There are few grovels I've read that are quite as satisfying to read as this one. And it features one of my favorite things, that I frankly don't think we see enough in grovel books today--when he fucks up? She just LEAVES. She just NOPES OUT. And he's like "?????????? WORLD MEANINGLESS NOW".

Melissa and The Vicar--I've waxed poetic about how good this is *quite* a bit, but it really is that good. Another one where the heroine leaves (and not because the hero fucked up but because she hates herself and thinks he's too good for her, naturally) and the hero tracks her down. And he's CRAZY. And he's UPSET. And he just lost his virginity on A COUCH. Bless, Magnus. (Lmao though there's also a very dear scene where Melissa tells him that she's not a virgin and he's like "oh... that's okay... I thought we'd lose it to each other but don't worry" which is when she realizes that Magnus, is, in fact, a virgin).

Hugo and The Maiden--An extremely annoying but also extremely successful sex worker ending up framed for a crime and transported before ultimately washing up on an island where he falls for a vicar's daughter who thinks he ain't shit is honestly so good. Also, as a note, I really like how casual these books are about sexuality? Like, they're set in a fairly accurate world, there's no pretense that Hugo wouldn't be hugely in trouble if he got caught having sex with men (for money or otherwise) by the authorities, but his bisexuality is just a thing and he's not super concerned about it on a personal level. And the same is done with Melissa, who's not only also bi, but prefers the company of women most of the time until she meets Magnus. Not in a "he makes her straight" way, of course, but like... men suck, and Melissa kinda preferred women.

Phoebe--I feel like this is the most conventional LaViolette I've read, and it's still kinda weird, which speaks to how delightfully odd I find these books. But it's still so good. The heroine's mom (who SUCKS) being like "I don't know girl, just like, drug yourself before your wedding night because that man clearly has a giant dick" is... hilarious. This book gives BIG North and South Starring Richard Armitage vibes.

The Postilion--this is last for me, but not because it's bad. It's honestly a really bold book that I'd totally recommend. It's just my least favorite of the bunch I've read so far. That said, the hero being lowkey a lil subby and delighted by how tall and husky-voiced the heroine is...? And her being obsessed with his ass? All good things.

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Omg hi i read my dirty duke after you said you imagine max as richard armitrage. can you reccomend more age gap romences so i can also imagine them as richard 👹☠️

Bro that entire Duke I'd Like To F... anthology slaps so hard. Anyway here's my thing about Richard Armitage: I think he can do the stern older man thing well, but he can't take it too far (see: what happened in Obsession; basically, he can't inflict pain in a way I found convincing). Like, there's a sweet edge to him, you know? But yeah I'm gonna rec age-gap romances that fall within this Armitage range and others that don't.

Historical:

The Chasing of Eleanor Vane by Sierra Simone: The highest compliment I can give a book is that it made me cry and this short story (also a part of the Duke I'd Like To F... anthology) makes me cry every time. Ajax is Eleanor's fiancé's uncle, but he is also Daddy. This man literally hunts her down when she tries to make a run for it and they have lots of very emotional sex in some secluded cabin while they're stormed out.

Wicked Again by Kathleen Ayers: Haddon here is 40 and Marissa is 49 so there's your age gap, but really, Haddon is such an excellent older HR hero because he's a silver fox who knows what he wants, isn't afraid to go for it with a single-minded conviction, and he's actually a really good dad. Also, him and Marissa are HOT, like, you don't even understand... go read this.

His Beast by S.M. LaViolette: This is more erotic historical romance than purely historical romance; Malcolm's out for revenge against his ex-lover Brian (who killed his wife and disfigured Malcolm; yes, he wears a mask), and his solution is to kidnap Brian's daughter Julia. There's a lot of "IM A BIIIG SCARRED MONSTER"-related anguish but like, Julia is obviously very down for that.

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long: A classic; Genevieve is 20 and Alexander is "almost 40". He's an older, experienced, jaded man, but Gen is more than capable of keeping up on an intellectual level, even though she does internally go haywire every time Alex pulls out his excellent lines (see: "you have unconscionably soft hands" and "you have a very good mouth"). It's so so romantic and the dialogue is very clever.

Olivia and the Masked Duke by Grace Callaway: Hadleigh meets Olivia when she's a girl but nothing happens until she's 19 (which is when the book takes place). On Livvy's end, she's wanted him ever since he saw him railing (and spanking I think?) another woman in the stables, and on his end he's all "nooooooo I'm too old for youuuuuu" but Livvy's a tenacious gal and they figure it out. Olivia's friends also have age gap romances in Fiona and the Enigmatic Earl and Glory and the Master of Shadows (which also the student/teacher aspect) respectively that'd recommend as well.

Contemporary:

Both Your Dad Will Do and My Dad's Best Friend by Katee Robert do the stern older man thing well (they're the heroine's ex's dad and dad's business partner respectively). If you're looking for straight sex with minimal plot, these are great.

Also Katee's Desperate Measures has an age gap between Jasmine and Jafar (who was formerly working with her crime boss dad). And they play into it with the added daddy kink and the fact that Jasmine is quite the brat lol

If you want a lighter version of the ex's dad trope, then I'd rec Tempt by Melanie Harlow. Zach is more gruff than stern but he hits all the right notes you want in an age gap romance.

Father of the Bride by Chloe Maine: The title says it all, he's the father of the bride, and she's the maid of honor (she's turning 21 the weekend of the wedding). There's a daddy kink. There's a sizable breeding kink. What more could you want. If you like this, then I'm pretty sure every book in the Conception Ridge (I know) series has an age gap romance.

Sierra Simone does a lot of age gaps romances really well. Her New Camelot series has a fairly sizeable age gap between Greer and both Ash and Embry. Plus, Ash meets her when she's sixteen and he was twenty six so... yeah. Would recommend.

Sierra's Sinner also has a big age gap (Zenny is 21 I wanna say, and Sean is in his mid thirties) with the added taboo of his best friend's younger sister and she's training to be a nun. There are a some suuuper hot moments that kind of emphasize their age gap (there's this bit where he's looking at his Rolex-wristed hand on her thigh I think about a lot) and ultimately in the bonus content (spoiler alert), there's a natural culmination to all of this where Zenny's daddy kink is finally realized.

Some of Sierra's lesser known romance novellas with age gaps that I adore are Supplicant and Music Box Girl. Music Box Girl is a modern take on on the Twelve Dancing Princesses story and Cal is the much older, ex-military PI hired to find out where Tamsin (who is nineteen; her friends are all around that age) and her friends go every night. There's kind of a twist on the age gap thing because Tamsin reveals she has fantasies about being coerced into sex by an older man which Cal is happy to play into.

Also!!!! Sierra's upcoming Lyonesse Trilogy is going to have a relationship with a big age gap, namely Isolde and Mark. She's basically forced to marry him for family advancement, and a part of marrying Mark is that she'll have to pretend to be his sub at his DC sex club but she realizes she's actually very into it. You can read Salt in the Wound here in order to prep for Salt Kiss.

Mafia Mistress and Mafia Darling by Mila Finelli: Oh Fausto.... externally an elegant silver fox-type, internally a MESS, but also, if you're looking for the dirty older man vibes, he's a winner. Peak age gap moment was when he and Frankie decide to role-play "innocent virgin being taken in the fields"... on their wedding night. Mila's Mafia Madman also has a similar age gap, but Enzo is less stern and more unhinged (see: yacht cage).

Both Praise and Highest Bidder by Sara Cate have relationships with big age gaps. Praise has the ex's dad trope again (with a side of a D/s relationship and a huge heaping of a praise kink) and Highest Bidder has a I wanna say 25 year age gap (she's in her early twenties and he's in his mid-fifties).

The Original Sinners series by Tiffany Reisz: Okay so maybe you'll be imagining Søren as more Alexander Skarsgård than Richard Armitage. Nora meets Søren when she's sixteen and he's in his late twenties (I'd recommend anyone to read a more comprehensive review with trigger warnings before reading this series). Søren is basically Nora's lover/father figure/personal savior/priest which is wild if you think about it, or if Nora thinks about it which isn't super often apart from in Saint (well, apart from one age play scene in one book but that was less about the age gap and more about the humiliation aspect since that's one of only two ways Søren can get it up).

Both Locked Box and Act Your Age by Eve Dangerfield have age gap romances. Locked Box has a flashback scene where they hooked up without him knowing she was 18 at the time (he was 26) and he RAN when he found out. Act Your Age has an age gap relationship and Tyler is Kate's boss. Also, they do a lot of sleazy stepdad roleplay. I'd say Eve's heroes tend to be less... stern, per say, and more rough and mean, but like, consensually.

Claimed in the Italian’s Castle by Caitlin Crews: Angelina is 20 and Benedetto is old enough to have married six previous wives who have all..... disappeared. Anyway that doesn't matter because keeps fingering her at her piano and eating her out and I was enthralled.

Other authors who write age gap romances for your consideration include Brianna Hale (Control Freak and there are others), K. Webster (Skyscraper Cinderella series), and Giana Darling (The Affair is one of my favorite by her which doesn't have a super big age gap—she's 24 and he's 31, but the gap is there vibes-wise— and Giana veers into the taboo category in her MC series with a heroine being 17 and he's... much older).

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Nightmare: The Preds announce a trade; Freddie Gaudreau for Richard Panik

i literally just thought “but what if FREDDY goes” but i think laviolette already talked about how he (and åberg) will be competing for full-time roster spots next season so i HOPE he’s safe because if not? someone will die

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Richard Laviolette - eBar, Guelph ON, April 5 - (via Exclaim.ca http://ift.tt/2nPvlpO)

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“Garden Brigade of Linklater School Operates Unique Employment Service,” Kingston Whig-Standard. June 2, 1942. Page 10. --- Reading from left to right are the members of the Linklater School of Gananoque Garden Brigade: Ross Atkins, Richard Beifie, Olive Brewster, David Byers, Audrey Collier, Jack Collier, Edmund Dickson, Eleanor Genge, Marjorie Harmer, Reta Harmer, Ronald Hutcheson, Margaret Kidd, Billy Killen, Anne Laviolette, Arthur Loverock, Garfield McDonald, Earle Maxwell, LLona Moors, Peter Muray, Donald Silcott, Grant Thompson, Beverly Vennie, Evelyn Wheeler, Graham Wilson, Billy Wood, Freda Wood, Gordon Wood, Michael Wright.

By Ernest JOHNSTON, (Staff Reporters) GANANOQUE, June 2— Though the privilege of full-time work on farms is reserved for students of the high school, the ’’garden brigade” of Linklater School is playing no small part in the cultivation of the victory gardens in town, according to Principal Miss M. Carpenter, who conducts their employment bureau. At least one S.O.S. is received at the school every day from garden owners who find themselves fighting a losing battle against time and the extraordinary growing weather.

The members of the brigade will go anywhere and attempt any job at 25 cents an hour and, with the acute shortage of adult help, their duties are varied. Digging flower beds. mowing lawns. weeding. general cleaning up of yards. and even simple jobs of carpentry. are some of the tasks to which they have been set and which they have accomplished with a good deal of efficiency. Two part time gardeners even found themselves elevated to position as bell-hops recently when the proprietor of a local hotel found herself short of such help on a special occasion. 

So well has the work been done by the members of the brigade that many have already been offered regular work for the summer in homes where they have proven their worth in a few hours. 

The assistance of the school boys has proven an invaluable encouragement in to making of victory gardens, it is generally agreed, since with the knowledge that such help is available to home owners have no hesitancy in creating a garden from every bit of waste land.

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Ezra was an Urban Legend [The Epic 500,000]

On the 14th of September, 1972, Ezra McGovern took the new skates he bought with his birthday money, headed down to the crick behind the Watson farm, and disappeared. He was wearing an old red shirt with a scotch tape plaque that read RICHARD in block felt tip letters. He was fourteen. Or twelve. Nobody can remember.

As kids are wont to do, we gossiped. He was eaten by a troll. He ran away to join the circus. He broke through the brittle ice. He was abducted by aliens. If you hear the whoosh of skates on ice, it's old Ezra skating beneath the river. If y'hear it, run, or he'll grab you and change places...

He became an urban legend even as his parents grew old tending their farm, leaving a wax tip burning in the window every night for him to find his way home.

"The truth is a lot more banal," I told the detective. "My father killed him."

Detective Laviolette piggy eyes ogled me. "Tell me more."

I told him everything. How Ezra had assaulted me. How I told my father through a haze of tears. How father had hidden underneath the bridge, and emerged with his axe as Ezra skated past. How he chopped him up into pieces and threw a different piece through a different hole in the ice on a different lake. How he comforted me, telling me that no boy would hurt his princess.

“And why are you telling us all this now?”

I focused on keeping my voice steady. “M-my father was an angry man. Violence was a second language for him, and he was fluent in it. If he could rationalize doing that to somebody else’s baby…”

I showed the police where my father buried the axehead. Showed them the old boiler where he said he’d burned Ezra’s clothes all them years ago. “Not enough evidence,” they said. So I went home.

“Do you think they believed you?”

He'd grown so frail over the years; his back weighed with horrific knots, the skin taut and translucent. His voice rattled, thick with phlegm, like dead fish stuffed in an exhaust pipe.

He ran a cold, scaly hand across my cheek as I shuddered, the tears wriggled their way through the grime on my cheeks.

“Yes...Daddy.”

"Good."

He sat in his favorite chair and patted the cushion placed on the floor. I kneeled as he slipped the collar over my throat.

My mother stuttered into the room on amateurishly stitched ankles - the cuts to her Achilles tendons scabbed with scar tissue. She placed the Madeleine in his lap and hobbled back into the kitchen.

He patted my head.

"When they come for your father, make sure to give them a show, okay?"

I nodded, repulsed by the angry red criss-crossing scars that lapped across his body from when Daddy had cut him up forty-eight years ago.

In the kennel outside, Daddy whimpered.

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