Baby Angels

“Baby Angels” explores the unlikely relationship between Janet, a young photographer, and Sweetapple, an aging sculptor. The story takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the author has lived since 1991. She wrote this piece to explore the human tendency towards preconceptions and show that few people are as they seem on the surface. The story is full of twists, most of which surprised even the author during the writing process. After winning the author an eight-week residency with the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico, "Baby Angels" was originally published on Gather.com, where it won Editors' Pick in the August 2006 New Short-Fiction Competition. The story subsequently became the author's first Amazon Shorts offering and spent time as a top five bestseller before the Amazon Shorts program ended in May 2010.