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Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes

By Peter Watts

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

Calendar Boy

By Andy Quan

Andy Quan’s preferred style in Calendar Boy, his debut collection of short stories, is the confessional. It’s a voice that is especially popular in queer fiction, in part because many queer writers are interested in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Disconnected

By Shelly Hrdlitschka

Fourteen-year-old Tanner Bolton has a happy life in Edmonton, but has a disturbing recurring dream of swimming in the ocean, something he has never done. Meanwhile, in a small town on Vancouver Island, Alex Swanson, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004