In this short, easily digestible collection of stories – the first one a novella and the last two short stories – the author leads the reader on intimate journeys into the lives of regular, everyday people in rural Ontario. The first story, which shares the same title as the one on the book’s cover, spans between 1920 and 1939 and details the mysteries, hardships, and heartaches of a young man who has returned to the farm community where he grew up and where, during his childhood and looking out his bedroom window, he saw and heard numerous mysterious events occurring in the house and the cornfield that sat across the road from his own family’s home.

The second story deals with a legend in a small town where secrets reside in the lives of the group of former classmates who reconnect to solve an old mystery from their high school days. Images and indecipherable sounds emit from heavy patches of fog that drift across the small town landscape and the graveyard that lies across the road from the main pub.

The last story deals with the travails of an unmarried, middle-aged, career woman who ventures into a series of romantic relationships. With the advice and urging of her best friend, she puts herself into the realm of intimacy, an area where she is least comfortable and from which much her pain and, yet, simultaneously, much of her hope, originates.

The stories flow easily off the pages and give one pause to wonder how their simple settings can produce such complex and genuinely problematic human challenges and outcomes. Possessing equal amounts of heart and humility, this book will be enjoyed by readers of other, character-driven stories such as Plainsong and Eventide, by Kent Haruf.

An intriguing book to read that consists of a novella and two short stories. The stories all have a reality that didn’t last. It reminds me of the television series known as Twilight Zone.” It appeas real but slips into a different reality which is a sinister reality to the stories. The author has written stories that left me wondering if secrets are safe to keep.

Three fun and spooky stories. Great tension and suspense with a sprinkle of paranormal and supernatural. Easy to read.