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The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake.

This short story, set in the Beautiful Creatures universe, recounts Link's transformation into a succubus and the ways he and his friends are coping with the changes that took place at the end of t

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.

"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person.

Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories.

We All Need to Eat, is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips

Winner of the 2013 CBC Overlookie Bookie Award for Most Underrated Canadian Book! An admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a three-thousand word sentence in defence of his passion.

These stories are diary shreds of young women who are in school but things happen anyway. Girls with their hears open like agar petri dishes.

From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we’re haunted ...

Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves. The stories in I know you are but what am I?

In the stories of Mad Hope, Journey Prize winner Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both recognizable and alarming.

A former lover becomes an uninvited houseguest in Ted and Marjory’s quiet abode, adversely affecting investigations into the history of the semicolon.

Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies – by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly im

A classic short fiction writer, Wade Bell lets his characters do the talking for him, electing to stay in the background.

The two short stories in this collection are steeped in the revelries and tragedies of nostalgia.