Andrew Scott is a native of Fredericton, NB. During his time as an active poet, Andrew Scott has taken the time to speak in front of classrooms, judge poetry competitions, and have over 200 hundred writings published worldwide in such publications as The Art of Being Human, Battered Shadows and The Broken Ones.

Andrew Scott has published multiple poetry books, Snake with A Flower, The Phoenix Has Risen, The Path, The Storm Is Coming, Whispers of the Calm, Searching and Letter To You, a novella, Redemption Avenue anda two books of photography, Through My Eyes and Walk Through Time.

The Road Unknown is Andrew Scott’s newest collection of poetry and prose.

To contact Andrew, email …andrewscott.scott@gmail.com

East Woods Road

I always knew that was something 
not right about the home
at the end of the East Woods Road.

There was a family of five,
a father that worked out of town,
a mother that stayed at home,
three daughters of various ages.

When the daughters went to our school
their clothes were worn down.
They kept to themselves,
would not make eye contact
with anyone around them.
They just looked down. 

Never saw the mother.
You could hear the voice
raised periodically
but never the visual. 

Until one night
the sirens lit up the sky.
Such chaos in the woods.
We all gathered at the 
beginning of the road
afraid to look in. 

The excitement of that night
brought so many stories
until the truth was told. 

During one of the rare nights
that the father was home
he saw bruises on his girls
blank, lifeless faces. 

Outraged, he confronted the mother.
The bite back to him was defiant.
The mother did not deny.
It was a way to keep 
the daughters under control. 

A yelling fight turned physical
with all five fighting.
The mother’s head got struck
and she stopped moving.
The internal bleeding took her life. 

There is still confusion
about what happened
up on East Woods Road
but they say
the youngest would not stop smiling.