Morse Code for Romantics
Morse Code for Romantics
Andrea Pole
, Sarah Schwartz
, Jude Castillo
, Mary Therrien
, Barry Kazimer
, Amanda Schempp
, Stacy Stafford
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Janice Cournoyer
, Sandra Furlotte
, Marilyn Stanley
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Shayla Bradley
, Joe Mitchell
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Deb Philippon
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Carrie Morris
, Beth Dekoker
, Linda Leitch
, Deana Bueley
, Patricia Johnson
, Janet Baron
, Crystal Inwood
, Thelma Ball
, Noelle Walsh
, Trish Bowering
, Karen Moore
, Julie Kaniak
, Darrow Woods
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Joshua Lewis
, Teree Hokanson
, Paula Adam
, Natasa Ilic
, Shantell Powell
, Maria Mclean
, Keeley Dunlop
, MaryJane Gruenfeld
, Holly Elisabeth
, Julie Girard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Vanessa Seto
, Cindy Matthews
, Frances Boyle
, Alice Meems
, Clare Hitchens
, Maureen Brownlee
, Debra Fisher
, Melissa Kohlman
, Gina Bergman
, Agnes Marshall
, LJ Law
, Dani Kat
, Laura Patterson
, Kim Meegan
, Elaine Baptie
, joy mills
, Jaclyn Dawn
, CHRISTINE ST. JOHN
, Paula Ritchie
, Kim Cappellina
, Patricia McKeown
, Alex Henderson
, C. Ray
, Elizabeth Pincombe
, Heather Belliveau
, Karen Kendrick
, Brian Ettkin
, Leslee Caulfield
, Catherine Young
, jane luce
, Linda MacIntyre
, PETER TASSIOPOULOS
, Ruth Walker
, Pinar Gencay Canturk
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Denise Duvall
, Mary Campbell
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Robert Hykawy
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Christine Lion
, Lynn Bechtel
, Sandra Burrows
, Kim Fenton
, arnab ghosh
, Derek Davidson
, Sara Erskine
, Charles Leblanc
, Margaret McKay
, diana kirkwood
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Megan Bishop
, Marilyn Boyle
, Prabh Toor
, Karen Charleson
, Benita Hartwell
, Karen Nordrum
, Randi Ann Doll
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Debbie Youngman
, Sharon Bird
, Kathryn Galan
, Katherine Koller
, Susan Jang
, Ken Gilmour
, Ryan Kosowan
, Claire Gear
, M M English
, Lisa Richardson
, Dietra Reid
, Emily Hikida
, Mary Woods
, Roger Podewell
, Nancy Krueger
, Stephanie D'Aquila
, Michelle Canfield
, Vicki andrew
, Donna Roucoulet
, Margaret Cekis
, Sandra Perry
, Jeanette Burchaski
, Melissa Poremba
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Andrea Carroll
, lesley johnston
, Edna Williams
, Elisha Lazarski
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Cristina Pejkovic
, Catherine Booker
editor@49thShelf.com
In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge-and break-in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate mother searches for her missing daughter, a modern-day Persephone who was lured away by a sinister boyfriend. An islander falls under the spell of a visiting researcher, whose insidious smiles and natural sangfroid mirror the serpent-like sea monster he hunts.
These wistful, darkly surreal stories, set in Southern Ontario, suggest that maternal instinct is not just a chemical lie but something bloody and painful; that one person's clouds can rain on generations; and that true loneliness can be as clear as code written on a face, and as ominous as a dark, monstrous shape lurking beneath the surface.
