This is one of the most enticing short fiction  summaries I’ve ever read. I’ve plucked it right off Leslie’s website. Scrabble Lessons ”explores the longing that gnaws at our most ordinary days, and captures those rare moments of acute certainty on which whole lives can pivot and change course. In these 15 stories, characters who have confined themselves to comfortable patterns are suddenly thrown off their games.” (<– See the pun there, the play off the title?)

This is one of the best endorsement quotes I’ve ever read: “Vryenhoek’s fiction is tension around a blaze; a fist holding a sapphire.”
- Kathleen Winter

This is one of the best endorsement quotes I’ve ever read: “Vryenhoek’s stories are like diamonds in blood. You will be hurt. You will be enriched. And you will carry them with you.”
- Michelle Butler Hallett

Leslie is a multi-award-winning fiction writer and poet who “learned to play Scrabble on her mother’s knee, and dreamed of being a writer.” And we should be happy a few “real jobs” didn’t get in the way.

Official Book Launch
The Ship, St. John’s, NL
Tuesday November 17th.
8 -10:30