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High Water Mark

High-Water Mark is Bronwen Wallace Award–winner Nicole Dixon’s smart and sexy debut. These ten tightly written stories focus on contemporary women learning what they want from sex, love, partnership and encountering and recovering from betrayal and heartbreak.

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Nicole Dixon

Nicole Dixon has lived in Toronto, Sarnia, Windsor, North Bay, and Halifax. Her work has been nominated for the Journey Prize and a CBC Literary Award and appeared in The New Quarterly, Grain, The Fiddlehead and Canadian Notes and Queries. In 2005 she won the Writers’ Trust of Canada RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for short fiction. Currently electronic resources librarian at Cape Breton University, Nicole divides her time between New Waterford, Cape Breton, and Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia.
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 High-Water Mark is kitchen-sink realism filtered through a storm-tossed East Coast sensibility. 7 $0.70

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 Mona Berlo is a Grade Five school teacher in her first classroom. Not only does poor Miss Berlo come down with every illness her pupils bring to class — colds, the flu, a sinus infection … 19 $1.90

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 The east/west Toronto divide is just one conflict that arises among the three members of an all-female band. 19 $1.90

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 A schoolteacher has moved from the big city to the Nova Scotia town of Refugee Cove, where she presumes she will be able to evade the more hectic and stressful aspects of her job. 14 $1.40

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 A woman becomes sexually obsessed with a female friend after a six-year relationship ends. 14 $1.40

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 A young woman and her partner discover that both going back to the land and raising a newborn are more difficult – and fraught with more unexpected dangers – than life in the city. 14 $1.40

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 Zoë is about to graduate Grade 8. On the cusp of womanhood, she is just beginning to explore her own sexuality when she discovers a pack of condoms in her father’s truck and arrives at … 8 $0.80

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 A pregnant woman falls overboard into the fridgid Bay of Fundy. 10 $1.00

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 A young couple struggles with jealousy, cooped up in a relationship. 14 $1.40

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 Zoë’s mother, Renata, has stopped drinking after flipping her car with Zoë in it. The story features moments of epiphany. 14 $1.40