Queer Fear II: Gay Horror Fiction

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

By Andy Quan

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

More Minds

By Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman

In Of Two Minds, the first book in the Minds series of fantasy adventures, Princess Lenora of Gepeth and her fiancé, Prince Coren of Andilla, join forces to save the land of Grag from a ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

Disconnected

By Shelly Hrdlitschka

Fourteen-year-old Tanner Bolton has a happy life in Edmonton, but has a disturbing recurring dream of swimming in the ocean, something he has never done. Meanwhile, in a small town on Vancouver Island, Alex Swanson, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

The Brideship

By Joan Weir

Set in 1862, The Brideship charts the adventures of three British orphans: 15-year-old Sarah, her frail cousin Maud, and Sarah’s irrepressible Cockney friend, Lizzie. With 37 other orphan girls, they are selected for jobs in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

The Way to Schenectady

By Richard Scrimger, Linda Hendry, illus.

Richard Scrimger’s second children’s novel, The Way to Schenectady, is a hilarious account of a family’s car trip that captures the tradition, friction, and inevitable detours that accompany this annual summer ritual.Thirteen-year-old Jane Peeler is ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

★ The Story Box

By Monica Hughes

A place where stories are forbidden, where all of life is dedicated to practical tasks, and where children are punished for speaking of their dreams – such is the world created by Monica Hughes in ... Read More »

February 18, 2004

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