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Queer Fear II: Gay Horror Fiction

By Michael Rowe, ed.

It’s a shame that an anthology with as many good stories as Queer Fear II will be overlooked by many readers because of its obvious affiliation with genre fiction. Readers fearing an overdose of Tales ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Uncharted Heart

By Melissa Hardy

In the early part of the 20th century, prospectors rushed to Northen Ontario’s Porcupine region in hopes of cashing in on the huge banks of gold, copper, and zinc that lay under the thick blanket ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction

By Michael Rowe, ed.

This ground-breaking X-rated collection of 21 short stories, edited by Michael Rowe, attempts to fill a vacancy in the genre of “gay horror,” a lonely literary realm that has thus far hosted only two notable ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Calendar Boy

Andy Quan’s preferred style in Calendar Boy, his debut collection of short stories, is the confessional. It’s a voice that is especially popular in queer fiction, in part because many queer writers are interested in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Pool Hopping and Other Stories

By Anne Fleming

Pool Hopping is a first collection of short stories by Vancouver writer Anne Fleming. Most of the stories are set in Toronto (where Fleming spent her youth), and reflect an atmosphere in which every act ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Preferred Lies: A Collection of Short Stories

By Wayne Curtis

The 13 stories in Wayne Curtis’s collection Preferred Lies are mainly set in the Maritimes, and deal with ordinary people in ordinary situations. Loneliness is one of the dominant themes. In “Winter’s Night,” an old ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: 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

Learning to Live Indoors

By Alison Acheson

The short stories in Alison Acheson’s Learning to Live Indoors deal with family relationships. Acheson, who lives in British Columbia, has previously published two young adult novels, one of which was short-listed for several awards. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions

By Carellin Brooks and Brett Josef Grubisic, eds

Short story collections where the criteria for inclusion are something other than excellence are dodgy propositions. They satisfy the editors and gratify the elected writers, but they rarely do either for the readers. Subject-based anthologies ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Choose Me

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

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