Atlantic Canada Tales
A Sextet of Short Stories
by Mike Bozart
Atlantic Canada Tales – The north shore of Cobequid Bay across from Burnt coat Head on Trunk 2 highway. It’s a snow-scattered, gusty-at times, early April morning in 2023. Recently retired, widowed, Nova Scotian, sexagenarian George G. Gerrish IV, scratches the back of his scalp once again as he reads about his strange condition on a discounted-upon-closeout, chartreuse-shelled, dusty laptop computer.
Formication, [noun] an abnormal (imagined) sensation of one or more tiny insects/arachnids crawling on or under one’s skin, a type of tactile hallucination. This term is derived from Formica, the Latin word for ant.
