Eighteen talented rural Nova Scotia writers take you to unexpected places and bring you back with your eyes wide and your senses tingling. The inner workings of the community knitting group...what may happen if you explore that abandoned house on the edge of town...the unusual weight of a cello case...when the new waitress at the diner causes time to slow down...humble objects--a shirt, a broom, a painting at an exhibition, the marker on a cat's grave--that change lives...