Life on Mars

None of the stories in Lori McNulty’s debut collection is set on the planet Mars, but nevertheless that destination is invoked in nearly all of them, most often as a way of alluding to feelings ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

A Plea for Constant Motion

By Paul Carlucci

“I found this photograph / underneath the broken picture glass.” So begins “Photograph,” a 1993 song written and performed by R.E.M. and Natalie Merchant that describes the sensation of coming across an old portrait and ... Read More »

April 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Old World and Other Stories

By Cary Fagan

April 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Dark and Other Love Stories

By Deborah Willis

Provocative commentary decrying the death of certain literary forms has become so common that it practically constitutes its own genre. Poetry dies several times a year, and short fiction often seems to be on life ... Read More »

March 9, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

All the Beloved Ghosts

By Alison MacLeod

March 9, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories

By Kaitlin Tremblay (ed.); Kelsi Morris (ed.)

Kelsi Morris and Kaitlin Tremblay did not set out to create a traditional anthology of monster stories. In the introduction to the 13th instalment in the Exile Anthology series, the editors write about the monsters ... Read More »

January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Man Tent

By Robert Chafe

As an accomplished theatre director and prolific playwright (his stage adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams plays the National Arts Centre in 2017), Newfoundland’s Robert Chafe has always had a penchant for ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known

By Danila Botha

When Danila Botha burst onto the scene in 2010 with the story collection Got No Secrets, she was hailed as an emerging literary talent. Her voice was fresh, raw, and honest; her debut quickly established ... Read More »

October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Swinging Through Dixie

By Leon Rooke

Toward the end of her fine new collection of deceptively expansive short stories, Kathy Page unfurls a little number called “Daddy,” told from the point of view of a child spelunking with his (her?) father ... Read More »

September 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short