These are gritty, sometimes grim stories, garnered from her wider experience. Almost every story involves a woman whose life has been darkened by the actions of a particular man. The stories, set for the most part in Saskatchewan, link subtly together as the lives of each female protagonist develop, through romance and heartache, desertion, separation and divorce, struggles of the creative vs. the academic, rape, and death. In some instances, the voice is that of an observer, watching trauma happen to the women in her community and feeling helpless to stop it. In other instances, the voice is that of the traumatized. Each story is meditatively paced, tackles a difficult subject matter, and strives to emit at subtle sense of familiarity.