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Fiction: Short

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Sex Is Red

In this age of short attention spans and quick fixes, the short story should be more popular than it is with readers. But short story collections seldom put a gleam in the eye of publishers ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Devil Out There

The connections between the linked stories of Julie Keith’s assured new collection at first seem tenuous, distracting even. Instead of responding to each tale on its own terms, we find ourselves, like small-town gossips, looking ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Island: The Collected Stories

By Alistair MacLeod

Fourteen of the 16 stories in Island have appeared in Alistair MacLeod’s two earlier short fiction collections. But it is the title story, one of the two new to book form, that epitomizes the theme ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Waifs and Strays

By Charles de Lint

Readers of Ottawa fantasy writer Charles de Lint are facing an embarrassment of riches this fall. Tor Books continues its ongoing trade paperback reissue campaign, which has brought back to print books that have been ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Tapping the Dream Tree

By Charles de Lint

Readers of Ottawa fantasy writer Charles de Lint are facing an embarrassment of riches this fall. Tor Books continues its ongoing trade paperback reissue campaign, which has brought back to print books that have been ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness

By Guy Babineau

If this book becomes ghettoized as “contemporary gay fiction” it would be a pity; while definitely, openly gay – the book’s eight short stories casually refer to such mainstream taboos as bathhouse sex, transsexuals and ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes

It’s an oft-quoted maxim that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite numbers of typewriters, given an infinite time span, would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare in English. Toronto sci-fi writer Peter ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

One Man’s Trash

By Ivan E. Coyote

It seems strange to refer to the writing of Vancouver-based performer and author Ivan E. Coyote as old-fashioned storytelling, but there’s really no other way to put it. Her latest story collection, One Man’s Trash, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Cruelties

By Lise Bissonnette, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The 15 short stories in Lise Bissonette’s Cruelties are neither easy to understand nor easy to take in. For example, in the opening story, “The Slain Women,” a contractor turns from building towers to killing ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Queer Fear II: Gay Horror Fiction

By Michael Rowe, ed.

It’s a shame that an anthology with as many good stories as Queer Fear II will be overlooked by many readers because of its obvious affiliation with genre fiction. Readers fearing an overdose of Tales ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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