Can You Promise Me Spring

Family crisis (cancer).

With spot-on-dialogue and a compelling narrative voice, Noker and Shutt's Blogs of Wrath is a terrific read a page-turner, memorable, poignant, and above all, entertaining. --Nicole Stansbury, Places to Look for a Mother Raw, vivid and very real. --Jeff Vice, Deseret News Blogs of Wrath manages to filter classic teen angst and frustration through modern tech-speak shorthand and first-person self-consciousness without compromising the good ol' 1.0 standards of detail and writing. --Bill Frost, Salt Lake City Weekly Carl DeReese only wants to survive junior high school in the Salt Lake City suburbs, but in an era when teachers are afraid of the students, some of his behavior is misdiagnosed as threatening. His longing to fit into a new school is complicated by a family tragedy, followed by a breakdown in the classroom that leads to criminal charges. The trials and adversities of growing up are catalogued on his online blog. His emotions are honest, his online confessions are genuine and heartbreaking, and his fear of what the next day brings will make even older readers wonder how they survived junior high school.

This young man, in his twenties, has fine eyes and a slightly thin body. The most distinctive feature is his eyes, which are big and bright, showing an unyielding and stubborn. This young man is known as Du Yun

Zheng Xiaoguang was a huge fan of online games. Although she did not have much money to splash out on the games, she had a big brother to take care of her. With the help of her capable big brother, she always enjoyed herself when exploring the gaming world. One day, his big brother suddenly allied himself with another powerful and rich player Bluegreen-Clad, the gang boss of the League of Strong Families, and married her off to this Bluegreen-Clad without telling her beforehand. At first, she thought gleefully, "Well, lucky me. Bluegreen-Clad has been voted The Most Desirable Husband and Most Desirable Lover by the female players of this zone. By marrying him in the game and going around with the attractive title 'Bluegreen-Clad's wife', I'll surely court a lot of envy." Beyond her expectations, she got a lot more than that. She quickly became the target of malicious envy and the common enemy of nearly all the female players on the server Watery South. Gradually, a rumor went around. Zheng Xiaoguang was stunned and wondered, ¡°What? It looks like that I am not a lucky heroin of a romantic story but a vicious girl who has stolen someone else¡¯s finance."

The more than 175 biographies in this volume together tell the story of writing in Saskatchewan. As David Carpenter notes in his introduction to the volume: "The writers whose lives are told in these pages are part of an extraordinary cultural community that has touched and been touched by the people and landscape of this province."