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What has to die before you force yourself to change? That's the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary.

By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry.

The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that m

In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, se

The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle's debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice.

Terence Young's second collection of short stories, The End of the Ice Age, brings together thirteen tales of hardscrabble characters in their lonely orbits.

Cynthia Flood's The English Stories offers a series of twelve linked fictions detailing the story of Amanda Ellis, a young Canadian girl who goes with her parents to England 'for a year that stretc

Flirt's unnamed interviewer, like so many celebrity interviewers we know, love and sometimes loathe, is more interested in telling her own story than in listening to those of her subjects.

Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time.

This startlingly original collection was shortlisted for the inaugural Metcalf-Rooke Award.

Hitting the Charts brings back into print stories that go as far back as 1980, offering up the full range of Leon Rooke's voice and accomplishment.

Norman Levine was a permanent outsider, by temperament and by choice as Polish born immigrant, as resident alien, as writer, as Jew and he observed life from the margins with an unsentimental eye.

David Constantine's short fiction is a revelation.

A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot.

Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River.