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Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster by Damian Tarnopolsky

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 by Jeff Bursey

Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster has an intellectual dynamo running underneath the words.

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags fiction

The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh

June 25, 2025 by Alison Manley

Suresh’s novel is full of morally grey behaviour and each characters has trauma and reasoning for their actions.

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags fiction

Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman

June 20, 2025 by Brett Josef Grubisic

Paxman is a whiz at threading this complex and evolving history into a recognizably Christie-esque formula, whether it’s Death on the Nile or A Haunting in Venice. 

Categories Fantasy, Featured Posts, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, science fiction Tags Agatha Christie, fiction, Mystery, SFF, Witches

Lowfield by Mark Sampson

June 18, 2025June 17, 2025 by Jeff Bursey

[Sampson] presents his version of the Island’s pastoral sheen through a subgenre of horror that features a haunted house situated in an isolated place.

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags fiction, maritimes

Puppet by Robert Stutt

June 16, 2025 by Sarah Butland

Puppet is a heart-stopping, mind bending journey of beaver tails and children show tales.

Categories Fiction Tags fiction, suspense
The Fredericton Walking Bridge lit up at night, seen through some dead winter trees.

Why I Wrote This Book Issue #47

June 28, 2025June 16, 2025 by Pearl Pirie, Alexis von Konigslow, Caitlin Galway and Farah Ghafoor

Featuring Pearl Pirie, Alexis Von Konigslow, Caitlin Galway, and Farah Ghafoor

Categories Featured Posts, Why I Wrote This Book Tags Chapbooks, fiction, Poetry

Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton

June 15, 2025 by Alison Manley

Newton’s skill as a writer is in the subtlety of the twists in these stories, and I was continually astonished at how well he executed a story during my read. When I pulled out Blaine Newton’s short story collection Rag Pickers again, to prepare for this review, I went to look at some brief notes …

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Categories Featured Posts, Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags fiction, short stories, Stories About Life

Something Happened in Carlton by Pierre C. Arseneault

June 13, 2025 by Sarah Butland

[…] sweetly romantic, mysteriously dramatic and cautiously humourous, this book speaks volumes about the grief felt in a small community and how life must go on after tough losses.

Categories Fiction Tags fiction

Dark Like Under by Alice Chadwick

June 18, 2025June 11, 2025 by Pamela Hensley

A lavish and penetrating exploration of grief, and of how injustice, cruelty, and the weakness of adults weigh on the lives of children.  

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags fiction

Lake Burntshore by Aaron Kreuter

June 3, 2025June 2, 2025 by Jeff Dupuis

Lake Burntshore is a coming-of-age, summer camp story that explores not only teens deciding what kind of adults they’d like to be, but young Jews discovering for themselves as individuals, what it means to be Jewish.

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags coming of age, fiction

Finding Flora by Elinor Florence

May 31, 2025 by Alison Manley

Some of the broader issues of colonialism are explored, such as residential schools and the marginalization of the Métis in particular.

Categories Fiction Tags fiction

How People See by Terry Ades

May 24, 2025 by Alison Manley

An interesting take on a family tragedy and saga.

Categories Fiction Tags fiction, francophone, separatism

A Horse At The Window by Spencer Gordon

May 25, 2025May 21, 2025 by Jeff Bursey

A book of extravagant fancy and heightened language with an occasional patch of straightforward prose, self-referentiality, and allusions to pop culture.

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags fiction, short story

Excerpt: The Exclusion Zone by Alexis von Konigslow

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 by Alexis von Konigslow

Excerpted with permission from Wolsak & Wynn Publishers ltd.

Categories Excerpt, Featured Posts Tags excerpt, fiction, Thriller

The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja

May 13, 2025 by Lucy E. M. Black

Well-written, with lovely descriptive language, The Summers Between Us is a study in belonging, identity, friendship and love.

Categories Featured Posts, Fiction Tags coming of age, fiction
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