Quill and Quire

Fiction: Short

By Sarah Klassen

In her impressive first collection of short stories, Sarah Klassen, a Mennonite writer based in Winnipeg, explores human spirituality through a series of meditative portraits of contemporary life in southern Manitoba.The title story exemplifies Klassen’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Mark Anthony Jarman

In the final story of Mark Anthony Jarman’s new collection, the narrator’s five-year-old son indicates over breakfast that he hates God. Why? Because the Supreme Being “made bad things in the world.” The boy then ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short