★ They Never Told Me and Other Stories

In an illuminating prose portrait of his friend of 40 years, author Barry Callaghan writes that Austin Clarke is “an island man who’s ended up inland, a sunshine man who has ended up in snow ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Friend. Follow. Text.: #storiesFromLivingOnline

By Shawn Syms, ed.

With its self-conscious hashtag subtitle and references, in the introduction, to how technology and social media have “opened up exciting options for fiction in terms of both content and formal innovation,” this anthology, edited by ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Love at Last Sight

By Thea Bowering

Love at Last Sight goes against the grain of most story collections these days, the majority of which are quippy and concise plot-driven adventures in minimalism. Bowering’s debut collection, which embraces a rich maximalism, is ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography

By Mary Soderstrom

The term “desire lines” refers to the paths of bare earth and worn grass to which pedestrians gravitate, even if a sidewalk or other designated route exists. They result in diagonal slashes across the corners ... Read More »

January 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, ed.

Here’s the inherent problem with zombies, from a literary perspective: they’re boring. Mindless, shambling husks devoid of language or reason, they exist as creatures of pure instinct, with only one driving force: chomping on the ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Running the Whale’s Back: Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada

By Andrew Atkinson and Mark Harris, eds.

Running the Whale’s Back is an anthology of fiction (both short stories and novel excerpts) that tugs in two directions. The first is geographical: the authors all hail from Atlantic Canada (the lineup includes well-known ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Auxiliary Skins

By Christine Miscione

When my partner went in to have a mole excised by a dermatological surgeon, I went into the room with him. He has no stomach for the bodily grotesque, while I watch live surgery on ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Other Side of Youth

By Kelli Deeth

The Other Side of Youth is the first book by Torontonian Kelli Deeth since her well-received 2001 debut collection, The Girl Without Anyone. The 11 stories in Deeth’s new collection explore similar territory: fractured families ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Red Girl Rat Boy

By Cynthia Flood

Journey Prize–winning short-story writer Cynthia Flood has a new collection, her fourth, and it showcases her narrative sensitivity, historical range, and courage in using foul language. This relatively slim collection of 11 stories features a ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Savage Love

By Douglas Glover

There are familiar reasons why more people don’t recognize Douglas Glover as one of Canada’s best writers – chief among them the fact that he mainly writes experimental short fiction published by small presses. One ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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★ They Never Told Me and Other Stories

Friend. Follow. Text.: #storiesFromLivingOnline

Love at Last Sight

★ Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Geography

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

Running the Whale’s Back: Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada

★ Auxiliary Skins

★ The Other Side of Youth

Red Girl Rat Boy

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