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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 ...

The Doll's Alphabet

By (author) Camilla Grudova
Categories: Short stories

Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - by constantly reinventing ways to engage ...

The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories

By (author) Myrl Coulter
Categories: Short stories
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series

In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories, everyone is missing something or someone; every family is riven by secrets and absences. Coulter’s narratives portray relationships, loss, and what ...

The Street of Butterflies

The Street of Butterflies features Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and their struggles to survive and adapt as immigrants in North America. These stories provide a glimpse of ...

Annie Muktuk and Other Stories

By (author) Norma Dunning
Categories: Short stories
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series

“I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, ‘Take. It. Back. ’ I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means ...

Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person

By (author) Daniel Zomparelli
Categories: Short stories

In these unconventional, interconnected stories, gay men look for love in any way possible. From social media to finding someone within a dream, the ways in which these characters search for joy becomes ...

The Museum of Possibilities

By (author) Barbara Sibbald
Categories: Short stories

In The Museum of Possibilities, the future is limited only by the imagination—and the choices that we make. These quirky short stories focus on pivotal moments of intense longing—for love, fame, revenge, ...

Bad Endings

By (author) Carleigh Baker
Categories: Fiction

Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward. ...

Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You

By (author) Jill Sexsmith
Categories: Humorous fiction

Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You explores the peculiar places we look for validation, a purpose, a life we might recognize as wholly our own. As her off-kilter heroes and heroines struggle ...

Armin's Shorts

By (author) Armin Wiebe
Categories: Humorous fiction

Armin’s Shorts features tales from the familiarly fictitious Mennonite community of Gutenthal, reimagined origin stories from the Tlįcho of the subarctic, and flights of pure fantasy set in modern day ...