Winner of the 2016 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award at the East Coast Literary Awards!Shortlisted for the Book Design Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for the 2015 New Brunswick Book Awards!In this collection of stories, author and filmmaker R. W. Gray (Crisp) finds the place where the beautiful, the strange, and the surreal all meet—sometimes meshing harmoniously, sometimes colliding with terrible violence, l...

Shortlisted for the 2010 Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction!Crisp confronts the unspeakable parts of memory, meditating on characters caught in isolation and struggling to make sense of grief, disappointment, and the occasional dinner party gone wrong. Along the way, these characters don’t always make sound decisions: a grieving widow pursues a priest, an unhappy wife whittles her husband to bits, and a melancholic man has a one-night stand with a whale ...

In his second collection of stories, author and filmmaker R.W. Gray (Crisp) once again finds the place where the beautiful, the strange, and the surreal all meet—sometimes meshing harmoniously, sometimes colliding with terrible violence, launching his characters into a redefined reality. A lovestruck man discovers the secret editing room where his girlfriend erases all her flaws; a massage artist finds that she can alleviate her clients’ pain in more ways than one; a beautiful man invites ...

The Alternative History Trilogy opened with A Southern Yarn in which R. W. Richards forged new ground in the field of historical fiction. Using a little known trap set by Lee for Grant along the North Anna River, the Yarn reverses the outcome of the War Between the States. The South achieves independence but yields on the issue of slavery. Now comes Book II of the Trilogy, Brothers in Gray, prequel to the Yarn and every bit as unique. This is the first contemporary novel to spotlight the s...

Gray Visions starts by exploring the immediate aftermath of the war, the shortages of everything, as well as speculation as to the future of the newly freed slaves. The novel continues with a twenty-year reunion of all the characters from the first two books, which takes place on the North Anna battlefield. During this event, one of the main characters, named Ivory, is asked by the younger boys about Stonewall Jackson. In answering their questions, Ivory essentially narrates from his own m...