Fiction: Short

The Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

There is a curious paradox to broadcaster and writer Stuart McLean: how does someone whose writing is so resolutely (and deliberately) unfashionable become so popular? Or, to put it another way, why are his stories, ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What’s Left Us

By Aislinn Hunter

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Middle Stories

By Sheila Heti

Despite the numerous death-of-fiction pronouncements made over the last half-century, some writers continue to search for ways to reanimate the form. Toronto’s Sheila Heti is one such writer. In her first collection of fiction she ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What Men Know About Women

By Ron Smith

In this debut collection of six stories and five mini-fictions, poet and publisher Ron Smith explores the complexities of relationships between men and women. The six longer stories are thoughtful and reflective, mainly from the ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Stranger Things Have Happened

By Carmelita McGrath

There should be a warning on the cover of Carmelita McGrath’s stunning short story collection: “Do Not Read This If You Are Even Slightly Depressed.”McGrath’s protagonists are mostly women stuck in dead-end or abusive relationships ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Day the Women Went to Town: 16 Stories by Women from Cape Breton

By Ronald Caplan, ed.

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Broken Accidents

By Phlip Arima

In this collection of punchy short-short stories, performance poet Phlip Arima delivers a quirky mix: dark satire of our preoccupation with convenience, consumerism, and convention; surreal journeys into the subconscious; and confounding dialogues. When they ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Path of Totality

By Audrey Thomas

In her introduction to The Path of Totality, a selection of new and previously published stories from her 35-year oeuvre, Audrey Thomas confesses that “Almost every story in this collection has something to do with ... Read More »

January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

North of the Equator

By Cyril Dabydeen

Despite the 10 volumes of poetry, three novels, and six books of short fiction that Ottawa author Cyril Dabydeen has to his name, the prolific writer and former poet laureate of Ottawa still remains largely ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Song for Nettie Johnson

By Gloria Sawai

With its drug store, churches, café, beerhall, and funeral parlour strung out along Main Street, Stone Creek, the setting for six of the nine stories collected in A Song for Nettie Johnson, could be any ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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