Quill and Quire

Fiction: Short

The Obvious Child

By Matt Shaw

It is hard to overestimate the influence that James Joyce’s 1914 collection Dubliners has had on the development of the modern short story. Itself modelled on the stories of Chekhov, Dubliners solidified naturalism as the ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

boYs

By Kathleen Winter

Newfoundland author Kathleen Winter’s debut collection is as motley and intermittently compelling as the characters who inhabit her stories. In these 24 short narratives, Winter presents crowds of people, allows them to wander in and ... Read More »

November 19, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Six Ways to Sunday

By Christian McPherson

In “The Plastic Garden,” the opening story of Ottawa author Christian McPherson’s debut collection Six Ways to Sunday, a reclusive model-maker finds emotional fulfillment in crafting tiny animals for a young neighbour. When the creatures ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Between Trains

By Barry Callaghan

The stories in Barry Callaghan’s new collection are written in a plain style reminiscent of Hemingway. And as with Hemingway, there are depths of emotion roiling beneath the deceptively simple surface of Callaghan’s prose. Callaghan’s ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Cobalt Blue

By Mary Borsky

Fans of Mary Borsky’s first short-story collection, Influence of the Moon, will be pleased to see that in two stories from her new collection, she revisits not only the characters of Irene Lychenko and her ... Read More »

May 7, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short