If you feel like you missed out on a lot of good short fiction in the last twelve months, or want to take your first step into short fiction (join us! Short fiction is great!), then I highly recommend picking up Best Canadian Stories 2026, and diving in.
Remaindered People is the title story for this impressive collection. Brij is a young man who is currently unemployed and seemingly without direction, yet when he accepts a position as a caregiver to his friend’s father, he comes to genuinely care for the aging patriarch. This piece establishes a very fine standard for the rest …
A short story by Traci Mullins.
“Tom’s Wedding,” was published in Susan Sanford Blades’ debut novel-in-stories, Fake It So Real.
The Year of the Dog is a previously published short story by Andrew Stancek.
I remember the year my father went to war, and my mother’s smile went with him. It was also the first time I saw an automobile, the day we drove him in the old farm cart to the city and waved him off on the train.
“Doris Fly” by P.W. Bridgman is from his short story collection, “The Four-Faced Liar”.
Into the Abyss is a short story by Allan Hudson of New Brunswick.
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