Fiction: Short

Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality

Is immortality pleasant? Certainly not for some of the Chinese mythological creatures in Lindsay Wong’s new collection of 13 short stories, including the diao si gui (Red-Tongued Ghosts) who face ghost hunters and psychics after ... Read More »

March 1, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Chrysalis

By Anuja Varghese

Anuja Varghese’s debut collection, Chrysalis, offers 15 shapeshifting stories that transport us to sex clubs, food courts, small towns, and haunted motels where women reclaim their lives. The opening story, “Bhupati,” tells of a new ... Read More »

February 8, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ This Time, That Place: Selected Stories

By Clark Blaise

The Germans, naturally, have a word for it. The word is dunkelblau. It’s a colour, a deep blue of the kind usually associated with nighttime. But in Clark Blaise’s story of the same name, dunkelblau ... Read More »

November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

By Leonard Cohen

Reading the early and previously unpublished fiction of a writer – especially one known mainly for poetry – may produce some surprises, not all of them pleasant. And when the writer in question is a ... Read More »

October 5, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Fiction: Short, Reviews

Arboreality

By Rebecca Campbell

A self-described “writer of weird stories and climate-change fiction” (who “really like[s] ghosts, parasites, and A.I.s” too), Rebecca Campbell explores what-if scenarios that appear fantastical at a glance. Upon closer inspection, though, the Windsor, Ontario, ... Read More »

August 3, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By Chelsea Vowel

The debut collection of short stories from Métis writer Chelsea Vowel is a gut renovation of the science-fiction genre that liberates dystopian and post-apocalyptic ideas from tired tropes to explore radical possibilities for Indigenous resilience. ... Read More »

April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Avenue of Champions

By Conor Kerr

The debut short-story collection from Métis-Ukrainian writer and educator Conor Kerr, Avenue of Champions, is an account of disenfranchisement and displacement, both historical and contemporary. Its historical roots lie in the late 19th century, “when ... Read More »

October 27, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Householders

By Kate Cayley

The last word in Householders, the affecting new collection of stories from Toronto writer Kate Cayley, is “home” – appropriate for a book that so assiduously interrogates notions of identity and belonging. In it, characters ... Read More »

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Glorious Frazzled Beings

By Angélique Lalonde

October 6, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Pump

By Sydney Warner Brooman

In their debut short-story collection, Grimsby, Ontario-born writer Sydney Warner Brooman takes us on a twisted journey into a small town where malaise will eat you alive. The swampy landscape of The Pump is true ... Read More »

September 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

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