Under normal circumstances, Stan Ferguson believed that Bonnie was the perfect wife, beautiful, charming, intelligent. Under ordinary circumstances. But when they find some old bones on a camping trip, circumstances go from ordinary to as far from normal as a person can get.Under abnormal circumstances, Stan finds out that his beautiful wife is capable of anything up to and including murder. And so is Stan.

“Shit happens, we wipe our ass and we move on.”That's one of the last things Denton's neighbour said to him when the world started falling apart around his ears. With storms, earthquakes, and disease erasing the world and the people around him, Denton slowly learns that Mother Nature hasn't left anything behind to wipe his ass with.On a pair of mopeds, Denton and his ex-wife Cammie,embark on a four hundred mile journey through a land that has been forever changed, never sus...

A collection of short stories that focus on old men and their search to retain their youth

When a terrified bear comes splashng across the turtle pond, George Spottedback decides that an investigation should be carried out. Along with his nephew, Theodore, and his friend, Frisky Jack, the horse, they discover that the uprights are mudering trees and using helicopters to spray poison on the forest. What can mere animals do against uprights?

“Web of shadows”. That's what Peter's friend, Mike Williamson, had said. “Each of us are the sum total of all the events of our lives. In time our base personality becomes enmeshed in a web of shadows, intricately interwoven over the years, to form the person we are at present.”In most people that was what built character. But for Peter Holmes, it had built a barrier between himself and the outside world. Not a wall, but a window, a dirty, streaked window that separated him from th...

Welcome back to Beaver Springs where the boundaries of reality seem to be a bit thinner than they should be. Meet Benny Grogan as he takes a mental journey that he at first jokingly called, "his misadventures up the rabbit hole".

Betwwen Shit Happens and The Reluctant Hero is another story. A tale of a young girl left alone in a world that had fallen apart. Jessie makes the choice to follow a man that she believes has destroyed a demon, a hero that she can look up to. She follows him from the shambles of her old life and learns to build a new one of her own. Between love and fear, she becomes the person she wanted to be.

A collection of short stories. Something for everyone.

Rat is back in town. On his way from the Federal Penitentiary to nowhere in particular, he's only stopped in his home town of Beaver Springs to bury some old memories. But old memories and old ghosts sometimes don't always rest easy. Rat is finally offered everything he ever wanted from life. All he has to do is take it like a man and claim his inheritance.

It's been eighty years since the Great Passing of the world. The people of the Land are determined not to make the same mistakes that the society before them made. They simplify their lives. Peace becomes the norm instead of the exception. But mankind wasn't built for peace. There's a craving for danger and action.Sam, as a lawman, does his job when the first murders occur, but when the citizens take the law into their own hands, he decides that he's had enough. He wants nothing mo...

A collection of short stories to pass the time when the time needs to be passed. Several short whiles that can be joined together to form a long while.

emerge 22 brings together ninety writers from Canada and beyond, who journey in fiction, speculative fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, investigating belonging, joy, fear, and fascination along the way. The work in this anthology is both deeply human and unflinchingly unexpected. In it, the body becomes a repository of stories, silence is a form of air pollution, and people turn into strawberries.Join us to paint redwood trees in the Yukon, organize a Muslim funeral in Toronto, and ...