The eight short stories included in this anthology offer a glimpse at Canada’s geographic landscape—spanning the Yukon, Canadian Prairies, Great Lakes, and metropolitan Toronto while starring protagonists who are well-storied in loss, yet not all choose to grieve.You will crunch across sub-zero tundra and bake on the beach alongside our hero(in)es. You will live like hermits and populate condos. You will search the remains of a knocked down church and dig up a decades old box. You ...

Utilizing an arsenal of tools amassed from years of study and teaching, Ace Baker unleashes a powerful collection of 12+1 tales.Always compelling, sometimes irreverent, often shocking; revealing layers and levels not often achieved through short stories.How to Make a Killing Jar will linger long after the last page is read, proving the world of fiction can unveil some harsh, hard, and sometimes humorous truths about the human condition.

What's more Canadian than this?A beaver that's lost its tail, dancing moose and canoe trips are just the beginning. There are also haunted islands, mystical ferry crossings, giant mosquitos, shifters, lake monsters, aliens, super heroes, and icons of the past.Come drive vast distances, drink coffee at Tims, laugh at the Leafs, and celebrate the joys of new Canadians.This collection of new Canadian tall tales is sometimes nostalgic, often funny, and ...

A stunning second collection of short stories from Ace BakerFire fascinates. Fire destroys. Fire transforms.In these thirteen stories, ordinary people discover the flames that define them—the slow burn of desire, the sudden flare of violence, the smouldering aftermath of loss. Some fires warm us. Others consume everything we thought we knew about love, loyalty, and survival.With unflinching honesty and surprising tenderness, Bat...

Embark on a journey through loss, discovery, heartache, and possibility in this powerful collection featuring the work of eight talented Canadian authors as they explore the complexities of life, love, aging, and mortality.Set against the backdrop of the vast question — WILL THERE BE A SUNSET? — each story will leave a lasting impression, with vivid imagery and compelling characters that will linger long after you’ve finished the last page.

The Marshal is a collection of tales that show you how he got his man, told by fifteen talented new writers that are sure to revive the western genre.Which will be your favorite?

**The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir PriestdaddySELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire“A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review**Colloquial and ...

In her second collection of poetry, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. With her unique and engaging voice that mixes pop culture, archaic mysticism, and inventiveness with lyric forms, these poems play with reality and fantasy, distorting perception, and are universal and personal at once.

Dive into a New York that might be.Drunk fairies, chain smoking mermaids, and wise bartenders are just some of the characters you'll find in this collection of strange tales of New York City.Time stops, windows open into other worlds, and on occasion, people transform in marvelous ways. The collection is sometimes gritty, often funny, and occasionally scandalous.But most importantly each story will draw you into a secret world most of us never see. Seductive and hil...

A mini-collection of short stories by Nik Korpon, author of Stay God, Old Ghosts and By the Nails of the Warpriest. Some are noir, some are literary, all take place in Baltimore.

Take this book and toss it out a second story window. Eventually it will reach the ground. It's a law. Throw it at the ground, it will get there sooner then if you open it and cast it out into the wind where it may drift or even float for a time before it reaches the ground. Tear it page by page and give each one to the wind to do what it will do with it. One may be found by someone who will read the words on the page, feel glad they happened upon it and put the poem in their pocket, as an...

He's chasing what's his...I've always been what my friends would call flighty.The only thing that I've ever been sure on, is that I was meant to be with Milo.He's been my best friend and my soulmate for as long as I can remember so when he breaks up with me out of the blue, I'm devastated.So I do what my friends think I'm best at and run.I book a flight to Iceland, determined to get away and try to mend my broken heart.I boar...