Share the Fish

Salvatore Macchiato, an experienced stone mason and aspiring poet, has a problem he's been trying his entire adult life to solve. Now, at 53, he thinks he's finally found the answer: three days and three nights ice-fishing on Lake Phantom in the cold desolate expanse of Northern Ontario with a garrulous group of men. Forced to face his problem head-on, Sal is confronted with a decision that will forever alter the course of his life.

Antonio English runs a construction company and has resided in Hamilton, Ontario, for over 40 years. He has been long-time married and has a teen-age son. In his early thirties he enrolled himself in an English correspondence course and fell in love with poetry and literature ever since. Not to long ago he made his mark was a poet often reading his compositions to enthralled audiences at the Hamilton Poetry Centre. He loves the multiculturalism of Canada and believes there is much to write about it.