Lunch Bucket Road

Winner of the 2017 John Bilsland Literary Short story Award for Non-fiction.
'The neighborhood men emerged from their homes and funneled onto the path like clockwork as though a great magnet drew them six times a day, back and forth: day shifts, afternoons, and night shifts--a cycle as sure and precise as the movements of the sun.' This story is an ode to the factory workers who walked this path to work in my small town of Welland, Ontario a one time home to heavy industry.