★ Zolitude

Given how often the stories in Paige Cooper’s debut feature solitary characters flailing for connection, readers might be forgiven for assuming the title is just some kind of clever millennial distortion of the English word ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Faithful and Other Stories

By Daniel Karasik

Daniel Karasik’s debut story collection opens with a taut chamber piece that barely fills five pages, and closes with a story – spanning 80 pages, multiple narrators, and several decades – that could easily be branded ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Things She Could Never Have

By Tehmina Khan

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Third Person

By Emily Anglin

A short story, by its nature, doesn’t start at the beginning, and doesn’t finish at the end. Rather, it parachutes the reader into the middle of a character’s life, and it is up to the ... Read More »

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

You Are Not Needed Now

By Annette Lapointe

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Cop House

By Sam Shelstad

Toronto author Sam Shelstad possesses the ability to charm readers with his vivacity, even – perhaps especially – when it comes to characters or situations that might be considered a tad unsavory. The bulk of ... Read More »

November 27, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Has the World Ended Yet?

By Peter Darbyshire

The short stories that comprise Peter Darbyshire’s seventh book – the fourth under his own name – are obsessed with ghosts and angels, superheroes and gods. They appear as manifestations of discarded, mythological histories that ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories

By Norman Levine

Norman Levine (1923–2005) was raised by Orthodox Jews in Ottawa and received his education in Montreal. But he was born in Poland and spent much of his life in England, where he married, started a ... Read More »

November 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Montreal Noir

By Jacques Filippi (ed.); John McFetridge (ed.)

There is a particular sensibility associated with the noir genre in both film and literature. Steeped in shadow and gloom, with origins in German expressionism, the noir temperament is saturated in booze, sex, and sin. ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Can You Do

By Cynthia Flood

Two new short-fiction collections – one by a first-time author, the other by a veteran – each examine the life experiences and inner worlds of a range of characters, but in radically different ways. In ... Read More »

October 10, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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