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The Legislature Ghost

The Legislature Ghost

30 Short stories - 17 Poems - 136 Photos - 150 Pages.

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The Legislature Ghost

Book Review

Great Plains of Montana featured in Canadian author's book ‘The Legislature Ghost’


By Elizabeth Doney - Havre Daily News

A book featuring short stories, poems and photos titled, "The Legislature Ghost," is hot off the Eagle Butte Press.

Written by David J. Carter, the stories tell eerie tales of ghostly encounters and memories of life growing up on the Great Plains of Montana and Canada.

"There are stories in there that will make you cry and stories that will make you laugh," Carter said. "The stories and poems arose over the past 30 years — often they just happen — and I have to sit down and write right away or else they disappear. Poems especially demand' to be written, right now!"

There are 30 short stories, 17 poems with 165 photographs featured in the book that was created through the author's imagination and true life experiences.

Some of the photographs were taken in Laredo and some of the stories feature prisoner of war heroes from Chinook. Digital photography has allowed Carter to see scenes and old buildings 'anew', Carter said.

"In particular I have a series of photos of old (soon to be gone?) buildings and machinery — as taken along the Hi-Line to Malta, from Havre to Great Falls and Havre to Chinook," Carter said. "I have similar photos taken in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to 'preserve' these scenes of yesterday. When I look at an old building, I get a certain feeling — I figure that the memories just linger."

The book goes right into a story that mirrors the title, The Legislature Ghost giving the reader a sense of intrigue that promises more mystery to come and ends with shocking surprise.

Based on the author and former Speaker for the Canadian legislature, it is his true account of working alone and late at night in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton.

The story ends with the Carter's mind carrying the eeriness to another dimension — the future.

For more information on the book, "The Legislature Ghost," contact Carter at (403) 893-2470

Table of Contents:

Poems

God Passed By Last Night Inside

Echoes Front of Book

Is it The Wind? 14

Banshee's Wail 36

Artistic Hangman 60

Waiting 64

Autumn Sunburst 72

Prairie Sentinels 84

Long Distance 95

Tumbleweeds 114

Tree Stumps 114

Do It Again! 125

Farewell 135

Prairie Lament Outside Back Cover

God Passed By Last Night Inside

Echoes Front of Book

Is it The Wind? 14

Banshee's Wail 36

Artistic Hangman 60

Waiting 64

Autumn Sunburst 72

Prairie Sentinels 84

Long Distance 95

Tumbleweeds 114

Tree Stumps 114

Do It Again! 125

Farewell 135

Prairie Lament Outside Back Cover

Colour Pages:

POW Illustrations

POW Illustrations

Stories:

The Legislature Ghost

Alone

Parson You Shoud've Been Dead!

Hatch, Match, Dispatch

My First Autopsy

Ecumenical Movement

Christmas 1939

Scared Silly

Silent Night. Holy Night.

Murder Behind The Wire

Happy Christmas Tom

Sweet Grass Memories

Sounds of Summer

Yesterday's Memories

The Bully

Train Of Thought

Ghosts of Christmas Past

A Joyful Christmas

Happy New Year

The Murderer

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

The Boy Who Loved Ferris Wheels

What's In A Name?

Country Swap Meet

Heavenly Music

A Pooh Christmas

Have A Bear-Y Merry Christmas

Farewell For A Time

In Search Of Wisdom

Wise Men

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