Fiction: Short

★ The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction

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

The Swan Suit

By Katherine Fawcett

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

Pallbearing

By Michael Melgaard

Michael Melgaard’s debut collection of short fiction, Pallbearing, begins with a story of the same name. Jonathan is a pallbearer for his friend Alana, a young woman who was terminally ill for long enough to ... Read More »

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

Good Citizens Need Not Fear

By Maria Reva

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

The Eater of Dreams

By Kat Cameron

The closing entry in Halifax writer Ryan Turner’s sophomore collection of short fiction is called “Moving.” It’s appropriate, given that the story literally begins in motion, with an opening sentence that reads, “As the train ... Read More »

January 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Half-Sisters and Other Stories

By Ryan Turner

January 2, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Bawaajigan: Stories of Power

By Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler and Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith (eds.)

In the introduction to Bawaajigan: Stories of Power, the 18th instalment of Exile’s Anthology series, co-editor Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler explains the volume’s title: “Bawaajigan,” he writes, is “the Anishinaabemowin word for dream, or vision.” ... Read More »

November 18, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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