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Monday, April 29, 2019

Reader's Diary #2027- Gary Newhook: How a Small Newfoundland Town is Saving Canada's Urban Middle Class

Gary Newhook's "How a Small Newfoundland Town is Saving Canada's Urban Middle Class"is a flash fiction story prompted by 1949 newspaper article titled, "How a Small Newfoundland Town is Saving Canada." However it's set in the current day.

Itself told as a newspaper article, it seems to present the situation of mainlanders snapping up cheap property on the island as a symbiotic relationship. However, as this is barely fiction, many real life Newfoundlanders today recognize the sly subtext in the story, subtle hints that the short term gains of locals may have dire consequences down the road. Not symbiotic, but parasitic.

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