Life is wonderful and challenging, complicated and hard. That much you might easily take away from the title of Lynda Williams’s debut short story collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It.
I’m putting the Code Noir on par in scale and importance with decrees like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Magna Carta, and the Treaty of Versailles. It is a founding document of the modern world. It’s just been buried because its story isn’t triumphalist.
“Animals” is excerpted from Skin copyright © 2025 by Catherine Bush. Reprinted by permission of Goose Lane Editions. For more information, please visit www.gooselane.com.
Devouring Tomorrow is an eclectic collection of imagined food futures, speculative and dystopian, by some established and creative Canadian writers, edited by Jeff Dupuis and A.G. Pasquella.
Dead Writers is a collaborative fiction project of novella-length stories by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Michael LaPointe, Cassidy McFadzean, and Naben Ruthnum. In this issue of Why I Wrote this Book, each author tells us why they wrote their pieces!
From Dr. Schott’s 30 years in veterinary practice come over 60 heartwarming, funny, and adorable stories about angry pelicans, bug-eyed goldfish, and plenty of cats and dogs.
Compiled from interviews with a select group of retired seniors, The Bullet is a collection of stories about the men and women who worked for the legendary pre-Confederation Newfoundland Railway, which later became the Canadian National Railway when Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.
Vin Maskell lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the founding editor and stage director of a project called Stereo Stories.
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