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Stefan Cotton

22 August 2008

The Peterborough playwright, music performer, choreographer and dancer is now a writer of poetry fiction, the week after next launching her 1st novel, Blasted. The rather autobiographical book relates the tale of Ruby Jones, a youthful Newfoundlander lurching between love affairs and towns, all the whilst haunted by the mysteries that surround her dad and generations before. Steeped in Newfoundland folklore, Blasted explores the contrasts and conflicts between generations, geographies and recent life in Southside St John's and on Queen Street in Toronto. Geographically, the book definitely mimes some of my private experience, relates Story, who grew up in Southside and lived in Toronto before moving to Peterborough. Ruby lives on same road I grew up on in St John's and in the same studio I had in Toronto. But that, notes Story, is where any likeness ends. Ruby seized me fully-formed and demanded that I write about her, she is saying. This Thu. ( August twenty-eight ), Story will launch Blasted at Artspace, 378 Aylmer St N The eight p.m. Event, presented by Cooked And Eaten, will see her accompanied by musicians Curtis Driedger and Derek Bell, whose stylings will rouse Blasted's moods and themes. On August thirty, beginning at eleven am, Story will be at Chapters on Lansdowne Street West to sign copies of her book. Among people who given Blasted advance praise is Stream Burglars writer Michael Crummy, who has announced Blasted raw and bizarre and funny and inspiring. Whilst this is Story's 1st novel, her short stories have been revealed in the mags Damaged Pencil and Kiss Machine.

Other written work by her has been produced as plays, performance art and theatre dance productions.

That body of work saw her twice designated ( 2004 and 2006 ) for Ontario humanities Council's K.M.

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