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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:5.8pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:5.8pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Monologue available</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> for playwright, actor or production company. Set in Newfoundland, Placentia Bay area circa. 1940s. Female voice, walks off page. Colloquial, parochial take on personal and family history, work (lack of), love, or rather sex, with nostalgia, novelty and humour. Approx. 7000 words. First page follows (below). This is an unpublished extract from a new novel by ex-pat <u>Tom Finn</u> (b. 1931), the author of Malpeque Bay (poetry), Princes (short stories) and Westsiders (short stories), all well-received. For further information please contact Peter Geldart at Petra Books, Ottawa Ontario K1S 5P5. <a href="mailto:geldart@petrabooks.ca">geldart@petrabooks.ca</a> . 613-294-2205. <a href="http://petrabooks.ca">http://petrabooks.ca</a> “<br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:13.4pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.4pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>IWEMEUS extract, Tom Finn November, 2011 </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"IDAPIE+Calibri","sans-serif"'>_ <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:17.65pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:17.65pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'>Excerpt from a novel by Tom Finn </span></i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.25pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:10.25pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>b. 1931, Tom was bred and buttered in the town of Corner <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.15pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.15pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Brook West, Newfoundland. After working in New Bruns</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"IDAPIE+Calibri","sans-serif"'>_ <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>wick, Prince Edward Island and California, he took up <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>residence in Ottawa. A retired federal public servant, Tom <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.9pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.9pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of his island <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>homeland. He is especially interested in the transformation <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>of the former British colony following the American <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.15pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:10.15pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>‘invasion’ in the 1940s, and its union with Canada in 1949. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:.15in'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:.15in'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'>For further information please contact </span></i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.75pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.75pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Petra Books, Fifth Avenue Court, Suite 140, Ottawa Ontario K1S 5P5 Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.75pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:10.75pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>geldart@petrabooks.ca | 613-294-2205 | www.petrabooks.ca <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:10.5pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:10.5pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Working title: IWEMEUS <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Chapter title: Vi <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:13.5pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.5pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Word count: 7,300 <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.25pt'><td width=528 valign=bottom style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.25pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Testing… <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.25pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.25pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>One…two…three… <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'>click whirrrr </span></i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.9pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.9pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Let’s see now. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.75pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.75pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Testing hello one two three <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.3pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.3pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'>whirrrr </span></i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.75pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.75pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'>…testing hello one two three </span></i><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Okay then. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.25pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.25pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Ahem. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.75pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.75pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Hi there. My name is Violet, Violet May Drodge, but you can call me Vi if you <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>want to, like all the regulars do down at the lounge at the Harbourview Lodge. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>Except for you, Napper my love, I mean you’re not a regular there are you, not yet <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.9pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.9pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>anyways, although I hope you will be now. I could see by the way you were looking <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>at me you was half-remembering, right? Was I blushing at all? You must have noticed. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>And the one you was with, wasn’t that one of the Musbury girls? Your cousin? <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.9pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.9pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>I really don’t know why I agreed to be talking into the machine at all. That big tip <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>I suppose, except you didn’t need to do that either, made me feel like I was a, you <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>know, one of them, after you come back here with me. And I hope your car is still <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:6.9pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:6.9pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>there behind the Newfoundland Hotel and not towed off like they do sometimes, <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>because they usually only allows guests to park there overnight, didn’t you see the <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:7.0pt'><td width=528 valign=top style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:7.0pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>notice? Of course they mightn’t even bother this time of year, with the summer <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:5.75pt'><td width=528 style='width:396.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:5.75pt'><p class=Default style='line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%'>crowd not here yet, not in full force anyways. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>