Asthmatica

For much of Asthmatica, Jon Paul Fiorentino is showing off so flamboyantly it’s a wonder that he doesn’t hyperventilate. It is quite a spectacle to behold at first, and the results are often very funny. ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bloodknots

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff is not afraid of blood and guts imagery or the narrative intricacy that her characters’ densely packed psyches seem to demand. In these 12 ambitious stories, Brodoff probes and prods our most ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

One Foot in Heaven

By David Waltner-Toews

There’s a quietness at the heart of One Foot in Heaven, the first collection of short stories from veterinary professor and poet David Waltner-Toews. Given the subject matter – Prairie-dwelling Mennonites – the sense of ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Cities of Weather

By Matthew Fox

Montreal-based Matthew Fox, an editor at Maisonneuve, has made a promising foray into the short fiction arena. A generally solid, occasionally excellent collection of short stories, Cities of Weather is set largely in urban landscapes ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Engine of Recall

By Karl Schroeder

With its 10 powerful short stories, The Engine of Recall serves as an ideal introduction to the talents of Toronto science fiction writer Karl Schroeder. While his novels have met with considerable success (Permanence was ... Read More »

May 30, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ladykiller

By Charlotte Gill

Elmore Leonard’s prime rule for writing reads as follows: “If it sounds like writing, I re-write it.” It is the type of pithy pronouncement that rings with hard-boiled wisdom, but Leonard’s dictum excludes the possibility ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Lines of Truth and Conversation

By Joan Alexander

"There is no heaven on earth. Hope must be devised. Pretend.” So concludes Celia Marx, a wife and mother expressing both her hidden cynic and her risk-taking writer-self in “Home for Lunch,” one of 10 ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mommy Daddy Baby

By Greg Kearney

Over the holidays, I left Mommy Daddy Baby sitting on the living room table and encountered, at one time or another, every member of my family reading it. Whatever else can be said about this ... Read More »

March 11, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Last Notes and Other Stories

By Tamas Dobozy

Last Notes and Other Stories, the second collection from Nanaimo-born Tamas Dobozy, is mesmerizing and powerful, with a subtlety that belies its significant strengths. While all of the 10 stories in the slim volume are ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Let’s Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between U

By James Marshall

James Marshall’s book of short stories is sharp and edgy, like the broken glass that peppers its pages. The Saskatchewan writer’s debut collection features eight stories that capture fragments of their protagonists’ lives. These fragments ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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