The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday evening at the Stittsville branch to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write prolifically but only share with the group, and those who publish their work for a larger ...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written. Other OPL groups exist, often with different models, however SCWG has found its model has worked to the extent thatwe've been in "business" for several years. Also, despite increasing our membership to 25, the OPL still has to maintain a waiting list!We are: poets, scholars, rogu...

We are a group of people who love to write, who come together each week to share what we have written, to listen to the offerings of each other, and to share links to experiential knowledge gained in the completion of our craft, word-smithing. We write because we love to write; we simply are driven to write. These are our stories. We hope you enjoy them.

A psychologist, a professor, a police officer, a nurse, a farmer, a midwife, a soldier, an engineer, a lawyer, an accountant, and a handful of public servants all walk into the public library. It sounds like the opening of a long-winded joke. It is, in fact, just a regular Thursday in Stittsville. The Stittsville Creative Writing Group has been meeting weekly for 13 years to share our creative fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Like villagers contributing the produce of their gardens to the ...

Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker...

Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide which is worse: demon women haunting the skies or maddened extremists patrolling the earth.In this chilling twenty-first-century companion to the cult classic Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Ellen Datlow again proves herself the most masterful editor of the ...

“Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop, Under My Thumb Tattoos, as a reminder.Chris and his brothers were as wild as the wind, in their house among the fields of Alliston, Ontario, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked, they were uprooted and brought to Toronto by their dad. Their mother’s mental il...

A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form“Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem’s stories are enlivened by his wit and provocative wordplay.” —Chicago TribuneThis dazzling, genre-defying collection from Jonathan Lethem features seven major stories published since his last collect...

Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark—in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down mean streets, under a gallows-tree, along dank passageways, trapped underground, in the near future, or among the mysteries of old New Orleans. Dunes, lakes, isolated cabins, old books...

A Bram Stoker Award–winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world.Wherever you're from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives' tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and ...

**“An inspiring story of resilience, told with a vivid sense of character and humour.” —RICHARD CROUSE, CTV host and film criticFilm critic, writer, and broadcaster Thom Ernst chronicles his life growing up with an abusive father in rural Ontario.**The residents of Waubamik know about the Wild Boy, a somewhat feral child, standing nearly naked in a rusty playground of weeds and discarded metal, clutching a headless doll. They know the boy has been plucked from poverty and r...

In 1990, British-born author Michael Marshall Smith burst on to the literary scene with his first story “The Man Who Drew Cats.” It won the prestigious British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, and he went on to win the award again the next year. In a career that has now spanned three decades he has written nearly 100 short stories, published more than a dozen best-selling novels around the world, and scripted numerous movie and television projects.Now, to celebrate his three d...