Quill and Quire

Fiction: Short

Flesh and Blood

By Michael Crummey

Poet Michael Crummey’s first collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, is a mixture of the magical and the mundane, the extraordinary and the everyday. Crummey casts his storytelling net into the depths of small-town ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Choose Me

By Evelyn Lau

As with much of Evelyn Lau’s previous writing – fiction, memoir, and poetry – the six stories and one novella in this collection obsessively track ill-fated, sexualized relationships between young women and much older men. ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Young Men

By Russell Smith

These stories, in the main, are a kind of anthropological foray that might have been subtitled “Failing to Come of Age in Toronto.” “Slaves of Queen Street” or “Dimmish Lights, Middling City” would also have ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Song of Ascent

By Gabriella Goliger

After the literature of the Holocaust comes the literature of the Holocaust’s children. Spared the immediate horrors of the Second World War, they are left with the more subtle task of witnessing the witnesses – ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Fair Weather

By Joe Matt

Joe Matt’s autobiographical Peepshow was part of a wave of groundbreaking North American alternative comics in the early 1990s. Matt’s unflinching and unflattering portrayal of every sordid corner of his Catholic-guilt-ridden psyche earned him a ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short