The Dirt Chronicles

The Dirt Chronicles follows a group of Toronto-area teens and young adults making their way in a world that has given them nothing and kicked them on the way down. Kristyn Dunnion (also known as ... Read More »

August 29, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Distillery Songs

By Mike Spry

Readers who like to be shocked may take to Distillery Songs. I am not among them. I found the collection largely immature, and felt that it read as though the author’s ultimate aim was to ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Meagre Tarmac

By Clark Blaise

Like many authors largely focused on the short story form, Clark Blaise is known more by reputation than for his accomplished and eclectic body of work. Though his fiction explores questions of identity, ethnicity, and ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ By Love Possessed

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s first book of short stories provides a fine example of the poet and memoirist’s brand of simple storytelling mixed with Jamaican patois. The stories feature characters possessed as much by the spectre of ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Something About the Animal

By Cathy Stonehouse

Cathy Stonehouse’s debut collection contains one heartbreaking situation after another: sexual abuse, mental illness, loneliness, and death pervade the book. However, Stonehouse’s spare prose reveals the hidden layers of her vulnerable characters with great precision, ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Anticipated Results

By Dennis E. Bolen

Vancouver writer Dennis E. Bolen’s seventh work of fiction, a collection of linked stories, shows a writer at the top of his game. The stories are so closely linked they read like a novel, making ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Pretty

By Greg Kearney

A fraudulent Celtic seer instructs a moody artist considering gender transition to act upon the desire by age 36 – or risk being decapitated. This is a fairly typical storyline in Greg Kearney’s second collection, ... Read More »

May 16, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Door to Lost Pages

By Claude Lalumière

In this collection of linked short stories, Montreal author Claude Lalumière imagines a used bookstore, Lost Pages, that exists somewhere in an alternate-reality version of his hometown. (It seems to have no fixed address, and ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened

By Hal Niedzviecki

Look Down is novelist, cultural commentator, and Broken Pencil magazine founder Hal Niedzviecki’s first collection of short stories since 1998. The stories here are raw, energetic, and, like the author’s 2001 novel Ditch, tend to ... Read More »

April 18, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

And Also Sharks

By Jessica Westhead

Even when things go well for the characters in Jessica Westhead’s new short story collection, they nevertheless feel certain something will go wrong soon. With her penchant for supremely neurotic protagonists and thematic complexity, and ... Read More »

April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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