An up-close look at the rivalry between the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers, told from the perspective of those that were there. Sports writer and on-air personality Mark Spector pays tribute to the province's hockey heyday with a unique blend of humour and homage."I hated every single guy on the Oilers, 'cause they all hated me." --Tim Hunter, the Calgary FlamesIn the 1980s, the province of Alberta was home to the two best hockey teams in the NHL. A...

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In a well of depression, Gavin, quits his telemarketing job and joins a group of radical idealists. In the days leading to his act of terror, a typo has all news stations emasculating the acts of his terror group. Thinking he will be remembered forever as someone less than a man, Gavin ponders the things that men do.

The end of the world is nigh and only one man can stop the coming apocalypse. Shane MacGowan has the ultimate weapon; the greatest song ever written and to save the world, his mammy and Teresa he just has to remember how it feckin goes.

Rose Brashear enjoys teaching anthropology as adjunct faculty at a Sacramento university, but when the job announcement lands in her in-box, she knows it’s time to get serious. Between exploring historic mine sites and scrambling to teach undergrad courses, she’s already stretched to the limit, but now she’s got to prove she’s the best candidate. Competition is fierce and Rose discovers the perfect position is hard to find.

Love, lust and loss, sex and skullduggery, conquests, failures, foibles – these are the elements of calypso, the stories in song that personify the islands of the West Indies. The three stories in this volume deal with lust in the Caribbean -- lust for another man's wife, lust for another man's yacht, and parrot lust.Man Smart -- Captain Petrullo is the proud, if not arrogant, commander of a 500-man army unit stationed in Passion Point. Each day he struts up Ponce de Leon Boulevard...

Dropping the Gloves candidly tracks Barry Melrose's career in hockey - a road that has not changed substantially for today's aspiring players. Not many have Melrose's credentials or his breadth of experience in professional hockey. He's played and coached in Junior Hockey, the American Hockey League, and the NHL. As he says, he's been hired and fired, and had his share of disappointments and failures. He's also had successes at every level. Now an ESPN broadcaster and one of the m...

A matriarch's death brings her three children back to the house where they grew up. This short story first appeared in Line Zero Issue 5, November 2011.

Telah Costner has enlisted the help of psychic after psychic in a quest to find her missing daughter, Claire. Dani is the latest psychic, and Telah is hopeful because she senses something different about Dani.To Dani, however, Telah and Claire are just two faces in a sea of clients and missing people. Dani doesn't believe in psychics and never has. She and her sister Kate have perfected a scam in which money is the only thing that matters. That is, until weird things start happenin...

A young lady's heart throbs as her beau tells friends of their love but sad times await the couple.

A girl has disappeared...but did she go of her own accord?In a small town in turn-of-the-century Colorado, a young woman has disappeared from the boarding-house where she lives. Her distraught fiancé is certain that she must have been kidnapped. But the case takes a new turn when a city detective appears on the scene, looking for a woman who matches the description of the missing girl. Was Charity really kidnapped, or did she have a reason to flee? Mrs. Meade, a ge...

Twenty-four years old and as attractive as only a platinum-blonde country girl can be, Kelly Miller is passionate about fashion. Her meteoric rise to fame as the fashion blogger at Gorgeous Rags, an online fashion magazine in our nation's capital, is cut short when she mysteriously disappears and a dead body is discovered in her apartment. Private detective Collin Carter is on the case. Will he find Kelly and figure out who murdered the mysterious man found lying bloody and dead in her liv...