Quill and Quire

Fiction: Short

By William Burrill

Now, more than ever – when our first Nagano champion turned out to be a pot-smokin’ dude and when Ice Storm ’98 prompted all the international media coverage of a broken light bulb in a ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Hal Niedzviecki

I looked forward to Smell It, to a collection of short, short stories by the editor of the Toronto ’zine Broken Pencil, because Niedzviecki’s nonfiction is usually contemporary and trenchant in equal measures. I prepared ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Genni Gunn

Tolstoy’s famous adage about unhappy families would form a nice epigraph for Genni Gunn’s Hungers, a collection of stories that explore the fraught territory between parents, siblings, spouses, lovers, and bridge partners. Gunn, a novelist, ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short