Fiction: Short

The Juliet Stories

Like her first book, Hair Hat, Carrie Snyder’s sophomore offering is a collection of linked short stories. Here they are arranged in a novelistic arc, following the titular heroine from a childhood caught between foreign ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Radio Belly

By Buffy Cram

Among the impressive lineup of talent assembled in the 2010 speculative fiction anthology Darwin’s Bastards, a pair of stories by a couple of newcomers stood out: Matthew J. Trafford’s “The Divinity Gene” and Buffy Cram’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ A Book of Great Worth

By Dave Margoshes

It takes some serious chops for an author to write a family memoir in which he or she is not the main character. It takes even bigger chops to use the constituent parts of a ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ajjiit: Dark Dreams of the Ancient Arctic

By Sean A. Tinsley and Rachel A. Qitsualik; Andrew Trabbold, illus.

With Ajjiit, husband-and-wife team Sean A. Tinsley and Rachel A. Qitsualik, who individually have published many short stories and articles on Inuit cultural lore and shamanism, have employed traditional Inuit tales to create a collection ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Shag Carpet Action

By Matthew Firth

Matthew Firth excels at writing arresting opening sentences. “Action,” the first story in the Ottawa writer’s fourth collection, begins with a description of Tatiana, a suburban housewife who “masturbates with an action figure – a ... Read More »

January 9, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Reverse Cowgirl

By David Whitton

A collection’s titular story is almost never the best piece in it. There could be any number of reasons to explain this tendency: authors are not always the best judges of their work, or certain ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Once You Break a Knuckle

By D.W. Wilson; D.W. Wilson

The challenge of giving literary voice to working-class characters too inarticulate, unselfconscious, and just plain beaten down to do so for themselves has been taken up by authors as diverse as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories

By Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud blasted onto the literary stage with The Sentimentalists, which won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her follow-up, a collection of short stories, is likely to provide ammunition to those who questioned the merits ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Big Dream

By Rebecca Rosenblum

The persistence of hope and humanity within the sometimes demoralizing grind of a corporate environment propels Rebecca Rosenblum’s new collection of linked short stories. Rosenblum followed her Metcalf-Rooke Award–winning 2008 debut collection, Once, with Road ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

By Douglas Coupland; Graham Roumieu, illus.

Read the title carefully: it is not an exaggeration. Without question, this book is highly inappropriate for young people. For adults who like their reading material on the weird and twisted side, however, it should ... Read More »

November 14, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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