Fiction: Short

Disintegration in Four Parts

By Devon Code; Emily Anglin; Jean Marc Ah-Sen; Lee Henderson

The novellas that make up Disintegration in Four Parts connect to the concept of purity, which, like this book, defies immediate, steady categorization. Rather than relying upon the theme as a plot device, each of ... Read More »

June 14, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Octopus Has Three Hearts

By Rachel Rose

As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Tainna: The Unseen Ones

By Norma Dunning

March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Stoop City

By Kristyn Dunnion

What an assured and attractively variegated collection of stories. Set in Toronto and small-town southern Ontario, Kristyn Dunnion’s 13 short pieces are marvellous feats of pacing and styling bolstered by vibrant characterization and enviable turns ... Read More »

December 7, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ Dominoes at the Crossroads

By Kaie Kellough

Kaie Kellough’s second book of fiction, the story collection Dominoes at the Crossroads, follows the subversive, polyphonic trail of his novel, Accordéon (a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award), and his recent book ... Read More »

September 14, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction

By André Alexis

The epigraph to André Alexis’s novella, “A,” first published in 2013, is by Margaret Laurence: “Then things become all at once strange.” It’s a fitting sentiment given Alexis’s penchant to allow his fiction to drift ... Read More »

September 3, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Cascade

By Craig Davidson

Few contemporary Canadian writers are as difficult to pigeonhole as Craig Davidson. From the weird fiction of Sarah Court to the literary coming-of-age novel Cataract City, from the memoir Precious Cargo to the genre-inflected Saturday ... Read More »

August 17, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

The Lightning of Possible Storms

By Jonathan Ball

August 17, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Here the Dark

By David Bergen

If there's one thread that ties together Here the Dark, David Bergen’s second collection of short fiction, it’s faith: the ways it unites and isolates us, how it complicates and makes sense of our lives. ... Read More »

April 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews