Short Stories (single author)

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Here the Dark

From stories on the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to the Canadian prairies, where an aging rancher finds himself smitten and a teenage boy’s infatuation ...

Naming the Shadows

By (author) Sharon Berg
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

The stories in Sharon Berg’s quietly insightful collection are touched with humour, outrage and mystery. Loss and learning, conflict and memory run through generations, innocence gives way to experience, ...

Moccasin Square Gardens

By (author) Richard Van Camp
Categories: Short stories

Master Tłı̨chǫ storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp captures the shifting and magical nature of the North in this stunning collection of short stories.

Coconut Dreams

By (author) Derek Mascarenhas
Categories: Short stories

Coconut Dreams takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India, in the 1950s, the linked stories explore the lives of ...

Difficult People

By (author) Catriona Wright
Categories: Short stories

Manipulators, liars, egomaniacs, bullies, interrupters, condescenders, ice queens, backstabbers, hypocrites, withholders, belligerents, self-deceivers, whiners, know-it-alls, nitpickers: these are some ...

We All Need To Eat

By (author) Alex Leslie
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories that revolve around Soma, a young queer woman. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, the stories slipstream through Soma’s first three decades. ...

A Face Like the Moon

A remarkable debut from Canadian-Coptic writer, Mina Athanassious, who takes readers into the heartbreaking world of Coptic children coming of age in Egypt. “All Good Things Thrown Away” delves into ...

Something for Everyone

By (author) Lisa Moore
Categories: Short stories

Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly ...

Hider/Seeker

By (author) Jen Currin
Categories: Fiction

Winner of a silver IPPY, Canada-West – Best Regional Fiction category. These stories are always unflinchingly honest in their portrayal of relationships—in particular the relationships of the book’s ...

Net Worth

A woman wins a fabulous lottery; a frustrated middle-age man waits for his wealthy father to die; an unemployed father and widower struggles to earn a living wage; an older man of means has an affair ...