hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by critically acclaimed author Lisa Moore, these previously unpublished stories highlight the charged and magnetic work of Newfoundland’s next generation of literary trailblazers. source
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Memorial University — Queen Elizabeth II Library
“Then he seized the infrastructure, with a new megahighway interchange to be built bearing his name and the evergreen highway signs to be emblazoned with the sigil of the Dark Lord: a cartoon curling rock. And these are merely the facts. Rumours abound through the city that the crushing grasp of his reach is growing larger, unbridled.”
Story is anchored to St. John's curler Brad Gushue's gold at the 2006 Turin Olympics; LRC reviewer documents the narrator's St. John's-area setting (city schools, Gushue interchange, provincial highway signage).
William Ping, 'Lord Gushue's Reign of Terror' in Hard Ticket, quoted in Brad Dunne, Literary Review of Canada (Jan/Feb 2023) — source
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- Set atMemorial University — Queen Elizabeth II Library↗
LRC reviewer Brad Dunne explicitly identifies the Avalon U student centre as a fictionalization of Memorial University in St. John's.
Brad Dunne, 'Rock Group: Stories from the Happy Province,' Literary Review of Canada (Jan/Feb 2023) — source
