Richard L. Provencher

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I have 2695 stories published in 30 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 2786476 times and 241 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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Richard Laurent Provencher

Richard is from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. His enjoyment of the woods combined with contemporary issues form the basis of his writing. Richard is now concentrating on his Story-Poems, which he believes is like a global adventure in a land without borders. His background as a miner, welfare officer, supply teacher, newspaper reporter, and a further 22 years in social services provide him with ample article material.

Richard has work in print and online with literary magazines such as Inscribed, Hudson View, Short Story Library, Ottawa Arts Review, Paragon 111, Tower Poetry, Caduceus, The Danforth Review, Other Voices International, Rubicon Publishing, Writer's Block, The Foliate Oak, Parenting Express, The Penwood Review, and Blue Skies Poetry.

Note: Richard L. Provencher will be 80 on September 10, 2022, lives with his precious wife, Esther and he were married 48 years ago, as of March 27, 2023. Richard continues to joyfully write all types of poetry, and posts his work now, all of it on ABCtales.com. They have lived in lovely Pictou, Glenholme and Truro, Nova Scotia since April 1986. Richard & Esther have a very strong Christian faith. Bless each one of you who enjoy our writing, and we are pleased to share our work, via Online Posting. -Richard & Esther

My stories

Shimmer

I don’t want to share my life in shades of grey but show up at the ball park with surging fire as an evening delight shimmering in parallel strips...

The Sandman is On the Way

My eyes alight with pleasure at the going down of the sun – glistening shivers of light pretending not tired nor needing peaceful rest but wanting to...

Topsy-Turvy

Wake up sleepy eye-balls blink-blink and I lurch to my feet placing them on morning’s chill hurrying along a laminated floor before new icicle toes...
Gold cherry
Poem of the week

Images to Ponder

A wrapping of snow has enslaved a shoreline of boulders pushed onto this destination an ice age ago and upon this deserted land winds are swollen...

Trapped

Lobsters are salty and anxious as they scurry and claw-wrestle for a little space inside their slatted lobster pot space.

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