The Day the Women Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton

There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Broken Accidents

By Phlip Arima

In this collection of punchy short-short stories, performance poet Phlip Arima delivers a quirky mix: dark satire of our preoccupation with convenience, consumerism, and convention; surreal journeys into the subconscious; and confounding dialogues. When they ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Path of Totality

By Audrey Thomas

In her introduction to The Path of Totality, a selection of new and previously published stories from her 35-year oeuvre, Audrey Thomas confesses that “Almost every story in this collection has something to do with ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

North of the Equator

By Cyril Dabydeen

Despite the 10 volumes of poetry, three novels, and six books of short fiction that Ottawa author Cyril Dabydeen has to his name, the prolific writer and former poet laureate of Ottawa still remains largely ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Song for Nettie Johnson

By Gloria Sawai

With its drug store, churches, café, beerhall, and funeral parlour strung out along Main Street, Stone Creek, the setting for six of the nine stories collected in A Song for Nettie Johnson, could be any ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Skin Folk

By Nalo Hopkinson

Skin Folk is the first collection of short stories from Toronto’s Nalo Hopkinson, whose novels Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber earned her a number of science-fiction awards, including the Philip K. Dick ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Dead Girls

By Nancy Lee

Dead Girls, the debut offering from Vancouver writer Nancy Lee, is completely free of the tentativeness or uncertainty shown by so many first-time authors. A loosely connected collection of short stories, Dead Girls heralds the ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Falling Woman

By Shaena Lambert

Many of the stories in Shaena Lambert’s The Falling Woman are “domestic” in the best sense of the word: they reveal all that is odd and resonant about family dynamics. Like Alice Munro’s work, Lambert’s ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Silent Cruise

By Timothy Taylor

The tale of Timothy Taylor should by now be part of the folklore of contemporary Canadian writing. Under a blind jury, he took three of 12 possible positions in the 2000 Journey Prize Anthology of ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Broken Record Technique

By Lee Henderson

In the west there was a massive stand of cumulus cloud so like a city seen from a distance – from the bow of an approaching ship – that it might have had a name.” ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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The Day the Women Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton

Broken Accidents

The Path of Totality

North of the Equator

A Song for Nettie Johnson

Skin Folk

★ Dead Girls

The Falling Woman

★ Silent Cruise

The Broken Record Technique

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