HeyJaredBruce Gravel
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The mystery of the purple snow (opens the original)
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Bruce Gravel is a Peterborough author whose nine books are available at Chapters and CraftWorks. The following tale is true. I could not make this stuff up. A neighbour â letâs call him Grant â told me a story of when he was young and crazy. (He says heâs no longer young.) He and four buddies rented a cabin across the border near a popular ski hill in Vermont during Reading Week at college. The five of them piled into one ladâs rattletrap van, its roof rack festooned with skis. Amazing
The beer snob (opens the original)
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Bruce Gravel is a Peterborough author whose nine books are available at Chapters and CraftWorks. Youâve heard of wine snobs, whisky snobs, and chocolate milk snobs. Have you ever heard of beer snobs? The beer lover and the beer snob look identical. Both hold a glass of amber liquid. But look closer. The beer lover drinks to enjoy the moment, the conversation, and the crisp refreshment. The beer snob drinks to evaluate, critique, and ultimately suffer. Meet Sebastian. Sebastian does not “drink”
‘I just wanna order lunch!’ (opens the original)
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Bruce Gravel is a Peterborough author whose nine books are available at Chapters and CraftWorks. Colton Ironwood did not want to scan the QR code. He wanted a menu. A laminated, slightly-sticky piece of cardboard that he could hold in his hands. Instead, he was staring at a black-and-white pixelated square at the corner of his table. âJust point your phone camera at it, Grandpa,â his 10-year-old grandson, Leo, said. Leo was staying with him for the summer, primarily for the fishing. Colton g
The short reign of Duster the Warlord (opens the original)
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Bruce Gravel is a Peterborough author whose nine books are available at Chapters and CraftWorks. Elrod Pendergast possessed an oversized moustache, an alarming lack of common sense, and a cat named Sir Pounce-a-Lot who dressed exclusively in tiny knitted vests. Elrod hated that cat. He had inherited it from his ex-girlfriend (source of the vests), and hadnât been able to foist it onto anyone else. It was a Tuesday when Elrod weaponized his robotic vacuum cleaner, which he named âDuster.â H
The future ain’t what it was supposed to be (opens the original)
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Bruce Gravel is a Peterborough author whose 10 books are available at Chapters and CraftWorks. In the shag-carpeted, asbestos-insulated depths of 1976, Liam OâHoolihan adjusted his pale blue polyester leisure suit and stared at his massive 25-inch Zenith console colour television. A special program, âThe Dawn of the 21st Century,â was playing. Sipping his artificial orange Tang, Liam felt a surge of techno optimism. In 50 years, humanity would surely be a race of silver-jumpsuit-wearing ge
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