The War in Heaven

Kent Nussey’s new collection of stories, The War in Heaven, explores the emotional state of gender warfare from the male point of view. The seven short stories and one novella in the book are populated ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

★ The Garden of Earthly Intimacies

By Meeka Walsh

On the back cover blurb of The Garden of Earthly Intimacies, Leon Rooke writes: “If you demand that your writer write like no one else then Meeka Walsh is your kind of writer.” Strange praise ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Getting Out of Town

By Connie Barnes Rose

The setting of these linked stories is an unnamed, presumably fictional, small town in Nova Scotia, but it will seem familiar to readers from small towns across North America. It’s the kind of town where ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography

By Terry Watada

Toronto author, playwright, and musician Terry Watada’s first book of fiction, Daruma Days, is a collection of stories connected by their Japanese-Canadian characters’ evacuation to internment camps in the British Columbia interior during the Second ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Reality Machine

By Cliff Burns

With the crime rate falling but angst about crime continuing to rise, writer Cliff Burns skillfully captures the anxieties of modern life. In The Reality Machine, he offers 15 stories that startle without showing a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Crying Jesus

By R.P. MacIntyre

A good short story doesn’t draw you in – it doesn’t have the time. You have to park your own world and enter the characters’ by the end of the first page. In this, his ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Henry Kafka

By Stuart Ross

You’ve probably had dreams like these. You know the ones: They unfold in your head like elaborate 3-D movies. You watch with a sense of detachment, marvelling at the intricate yet coherent plotting, the compelling ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rum River

By Raymond Fraser

In 1978 Raymond Fraser’s The Bannonbridge Musicians was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. This is the first time since then that the Maritime writer has broken his fictional silence in book form, though a ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Laterna Magika

By Ven Begamudré

Read Saskatchewan’s Ven Begamudré as an ethnic writer, and Laterna Magika repeats a familiar version of Canadian immigrants’ quandaries. Minorities, the eight stories suggest, dangle in an intellectual limbo between origin and end. While Begamudré’s ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Awake When All the World Is Asleep

By Shree Ghatage

The title story in Shree Ghatage’s first collection, Awake When All the World Is Asleep, comes from a conversation between two servants in a middle-class Bombay apartment building. When one character complains about being sent ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Quill and Quire

The War in Heaven

★ The Garden of Earthly Intimacies

Getting Out of Town

Daruma Days: A Collection of Fictionalised Biography

The Reality Machine

The Crying Jesus

Henry Kafka

Rum River

Laterna Magika

Awake When All the World Is Asleep

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