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"The Woods is the cure-all to Perfect Island Getaway nostalgia.

Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the quotidian world through the lens of the absurd.

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.

This offbeat story collection effortlessly captures dark underworlds and the eccentric characters that inhabit them. In one story, a jealous tattoo artist revenges himself on the woman he loves.

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

With their staccato rhythm and attention to detail these stories recall emotions, memories, atmosphere, and even physical sensations with a powerful freshness.

The resistance of the human spirit in face of time, disloyalty, and oblivion is the theme of Marina Sonkina’s new collection of short stories.

Len Gasparini is a master of the dark, hard-edged, densely layered story.