Throwback: After We Drowned by Jill Yonit Goldberg
Covering the same sort of stark wasteland, both economic and emotional, Goldberg subverts expectations time and again by delineating a tangible humanity in the lost souls she describes.
Bildungsroman
Declan Tucker’s Grand Debut by William Wodhams
Wodhams has woven a fine, rich tapestry of a story. Declan is a split-screen; a fish out of water crossed with loveable artist, who has very high hopes.
Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns
There’s palpable tension in the spare opening pages of Yellow Barks Spider, a debut novella by Vancouver-based Saskatchewan transplant Harman Burns. Even before the story begins, a dedication—“for ██████ wherever you are” —draws any curious eye. A technique Burns revisits later, redaction—with its there/not there visibility—prompts inevitable questions: what’s the masked name and the story behind …
A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Lewis Evans
A Whale Watcher’s Guide to the Apocalypse recounts
one man’s endeavour to regain control of his dreary life
by setting out for a new “frontier.”
