Pat doesn’t watch horror movies.

Pat came to Canada a refugee. Lived in a single room. Shared a narrow bed. Lived in fear of a knock on the door.

He lay shivering at night listening to screaming as one neighbor chased another with a knife.

Pat doesn’t watch horror movies.

Eileen is a grandma twelve times over, who, now retired, has switched from writing as part of her employment for others to writing along her own creative path. She has a poem recently published in Mothers of Angels 2.