The Cove Journal
by JoDee Samuelson

During the recent heavy rains, the potato field above us became saturated, sending water rushing down the drills in a babbling brook that ran straight through our yard. At the same time, wasps by the dozen were getting into our living room and creating havoc. Time to get away!

Although we think of the Island as the most desirable spot on earth (when we’re not
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Curated by Judy Gaudet

Climb up

I’m going to get the ladder from the shed,
prop it against the moon, climb up,
sit on a cloud. Roll around, maybe.
When a passing eagle does a double take,
I’ll say, “How do you like them apples?”
And when starlings gather into a murmuration,
I’ll lie at the edge with my hair dangling down
to catch the swooshed air of wings.

—Deirdre Kessler is the author of Afternoon
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by Ivy Wigmore

The following is a true, if much condensed story. Names and a minor detail or two have been changed to respect the privacy of those involved…

Fiona knew the house was haunted. As she sat on the deck having tea with the widow, she heard unmistakable sounds of sawing and hammering from the workshop in the empty house. She knew who the ghost was and why he might linger. But having
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Evangeline

Review by Sean McQuaid

When the Charlottetown Festival announced its 2015 theatrical line-up featuring the girl power trinity of Alice, Anne and Evangeline, your rascally reviewer remarked on how this combo could become an adorable merchandising juggernaut along the lines of Disney Princesses: Festival Fillies, collect them all! 

I was joking, of course—unless it actually happens
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ABigWHAT

Review by Sean McQuaid 

For all his Bohemian quirks, your prim and proper prattler is a bit of a square at heart. Heck, in the old days I was practically a young male version of Margaret Dumont (the society stiff from the Marx Brothers movies), forever aghast at the world's innumerable improprieties. 

A couple of decades later, I'm far less easily shocked—more jaded or more
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The Island Fringe Festival

Review by Sean McQuaid 

Your haphazard hack was not actually assigned to cover the Island Fringe Festival this year—he just wandered into three fringe shows strictly as a civilian one weekend, and the Buzz editor later suggested it might be worth writing up. Hence the coverage of only three random shows, with apologies to those omitted. 

All three shows were
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