Discovered in a Scream, 3rd edition

Ben Nuttall-Smith taught Music, Theatre, Art, and Language until he retired in 1991. Ben is Past President of the Federation of British Columbia Writers and member of The Writers' Union of Canada. Ben's poems and short stories appear in many anthologies and online publications including All That Uneasy Spring ed. Patrick Lane; Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine; Poemata Canadian Poetry Association; Royal City Poets, Silver Bow Publishing, Between Earth and Sky, Silver Bow, Lucidity Journal of Verse, Bear House Publishing, Houston, Texas; Cyclamens and Swords on line poetry magazine. Ben was the winner of The Surrey Board of Trade Special Achievement Award 2011 for work as a writer and for service to the writing community. He was also awarded an Honorary Life Membership by the Federation of British Columbia Writers, May 2013, "in recognition of extraordinary service and dedication to the ideal of Writers Helping Writers".

Barriers and traps erected in the mind are more pernicious than brick walls.Torn from his parents' fairy-garden by the Blitz, Ben is dragged through childhood horrors, ending up in the New World. It turns out to be more of the same. Sadistic members of a religious order, debilitating family battles, being punched and kicked to near death in the US south, driven into the deep dungeons of his mind by officious school administrators, and then destroyed by his wife, Ben finally buries himself in a decrepit "fixer-upper" on the Sunshine Coast.Out of that misery comes a light that draws him to Crescent Beach: his new-found love and a healing garden.