Fiction: Short

★ Avalanche

White people’s anxieties, anger, fear, and self-doubt regarding race and racism are placed centre stage in Avalanche, the provocative and illuminating new collection of short fiction by Toronto-based Jessica Westhead, the author of two books ... Read More »

August 9, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Above Discovery

By Jennifer Falkner

“Because one half of me is my mother, I know she too would stand at the edge,” the narrator of “Climbing Mt. Sinai” thinks, as she gazes up at the fabled mountain. Across her debut ... Read More »

May 3, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display

By Nick Thran

If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display, the wonderfully odd new collection from Fredericton writer, editor, and poet Nick Thran, is ostensibly rooted in the world of bookstores and booksellers, but ... Read More »

April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Anthologies, Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

★ Instructions for the Drowning

By Steven Heighton

The first and last stories in Steven Heighton’s posthumous collection both feature characters punching someone with unintended consequences. In the title story, which opens the book, Ray recalls his father advising him that the only ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality

By Lindsay Wong

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

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