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Out & Back Substack — February, 2024

 

The map is not the territory
In which I cover myself with vainglory and misapprehension

The Signs
Microstory

Who remembers Aunt Molly and Darkeytown
Slaves and ex-slaves in Norfolk County

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Out & Back Substack — January, 2024

 

Demon Lover
Microstory

Lives of Slaves
An experimental reading of the West Indian slave registries

Learning to read the ground
Sugar ruins and working estates in Grenada

My Puritan Ancestors & the Tavern of the Dark Moon
A family story

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Out & Back Substack — December, 2023

 

Some things cannot be put right
Microstory

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Out & Back Substack — November, 2023

 

The Mount Rich Carib Stones
Ghosts in the jungle

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Photographs below were taken by Douglas Glover except for the ones in which he appears, which were taken by Jacob Glover (Nova Scotia beach pictures) and Melissa Fisher (British Columbia beach picture).

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 “And I thought how Proust teaches us that all love resides
in anticipation and not the beloved,
that love achieved is only on loan,
that we are martyrs to our desires, which are endless.”

Douglas Glover, Savage Love