The Crooked Thing: Stories by Mary MacDonald
The Crooked Thing is a collection of intense and emotional stories, there are traumas and betrayals, loves and losses, missed opportunities and discoveries, and above all, hope.
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The Hours: Stories from a Pandemic By Bruce Meyer
In the course of social isolation, social distancing, and social solitude, every hour can seem to last a year. In 'The Hours', Bruce Meyer presents six stories that showcase how individuals responded to pandemics throughout history with dignity and determination.
Goth Girls of Banff by John O’Neill
John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic.
Walking Leonard and Other Stories by Sophie Stocking
Walking Leonard and Other Stories, is a short story collection of roughly 30,000 words in the literary fiction genre. The stories depict unspoken pivot points in the lives of ordinary people.
Night Watch: The Vet Suite by Gillian Wigmore
Full of humour and compassion, Night Watch collects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians.
Hunger Moon by Traci Skuce
Traci Skuce's Hunger Moon is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full.
Urban Disturbances by Bruce McDougall
In Urban Disturbances, his second collection of short fiction, Bruce McDougall writes unaffectedly and persuasively about unexceptional people doing unremarkable things.
The Butcher of Park Ex and Other Semi-Truthful Tales by Andreas Kessaris
The Butcher of Park Ex is a humorous collection of personal stories inspired by the author's life growing up in Montreal's Park Extension neighbourhood, with Greek immigrant parents who never quite adapted to life in their new country.
Czech Techno & Other Stories of Music by Mark Anthony Jarman
If you like your stories to follow a straight line, this quintuplet may give you whiplash. Each one invites you into an introspective world of intense emotions, whether for a woman, 4-track cassette, California in the 90s, or disdain for … Continue reading
The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball
Jonathan Ball’s short fiction collection, The Lightning of Possible Storms, is a volume that exults in the many ways in which it confounds expectations and keeps the reader off-balance. Ball’s stories are brashly eccentric, cynical, surreal and delightfully subversive metafictions.
Boy With a Problem by Chris Benjamin
How does a teenager deal with grief? Where do you turn in the aftermath of tragedy? What can ease the shame of a dark secret? Who can help when things feel helpless? In sparse but emotive prose, Chris Benjamin’s collection … Continue reading
Fontainebleu by Madeline Sonik
In this collection of linked stories (part surreal picaresque, part dark comedy, and part murder mystery) magic meets the mundane as misfits and miscreants struggle to free themselves from untenable situations.
Seeking Shade By Frances Boyle
In Frances Boyle's short story collection Seeking Shade, nuanced characters endure trauma, evolution and epiphany as they face challenges, make decisions, and suffer the inevitable consequences.
Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth: Stories by Christopher Evans
Christopher Evans’s darkly humorous and speculatively tragic collection of stories is peopled by such strays — those struggling with the isolation of nostalgic consumption, the self-sabotage of trauma denial, and easy acquiescence to fragile masculinity
People Like Frank: and other stories from the edge of normal by Jenn Ashton
Jenn Ashton’s short stories are peopled with humble and forward-leaning characters, the collection aptly called People Like Frank.
Like many avid readers, I enjoy a good and satisfying dive into dark waters. I regularly embrace contradictions, twists and moral ambiguity. … Continue reading