★ 16 Categories of Desire

Early nineties, I hunted hard for a press – the right press – for my slim collection of stories. I was eager and greedy; tossed my little net too many times. But Goose Lane Editions ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Topography of Love

By Bernice Morgan

In her novels Random Passage and Waiting for Time, Bernice Morgan delved into the Newfoundland of long ago, telling the engaging story of an outport’s first families and their struggle to survive and settle. With ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Truth About Love

By Patrick Roscoe

Anyone titling a book The Truth About Love is asking for trouble. The potential to sentimentalize or to make claims the book cannot sustain is daunting. Patrick Roscoe, then, should be commended for his ambition ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ 19 Knives

By Mark Anthony Jarman

In the final story of Mark Anthony Jarman’s new collection, the narrator’s five-year-old son indicates over breakfast that he hates God. Why? Because the Supreme Being “made bad things in the world.” The boy then ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Truth Is

By Mary Soderstrom

Lil of “What Lil Remembers,” one of 14 stories in Mary Soderstrom’s new collection, The Truth Is, is desperate to find comfort. With one child hospitalized and her husband away providing medical aid in disaster ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?

By Elyse Gasco

“[F]amily is a tricky and shifty thing,” writes Elyse Gasco in Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? and her seven stories powerfully underscore that assertion time and time again. Gasco’s work has helped me formulate ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Man Who Beat the Man

By F.B. André

The Man Who Beat the Man is the first collection of short stories from restaurateur and erstwhile gold miner F.B. André, although at times it feels more like a selection of third chapters from several ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hogtown Bonbons

By Greg Kramer

Writer Greg Kramer has been entertaining readers of Toronto’s bi-weekly lesbian and gay newspaper, Xtra! since the spring of 1998 with a series of loosely linked short stories that have now been brought together in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Drought & Other Stories

By Jan Thornhill

Drought & Other Stories, the first book of adult fiction from children’s author Jan Thornhill, offers sad, poignant, and quirky short stories recounting the domestic tragedies of women’s lives. The women in these tales love ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

How Did You Sleep?

By Paul Glennon

A collection of short stories can act as a haunted house (seemingly unlinked episodes building to a larger effect or vision), a flea market (a random assembling of used items and leftovers), or, as in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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★ 16 Categories of Desire

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The Truth About Love

★ 19 Knives

The Truth Is

Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?

The Man Who Beat the Man

Hogtown Bonbons

Drought & Other Stories

How Did You Sleep?

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