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In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us.

"Bessie Smith Connolly has lived with her Nova Scotia grandparents since she was small.

"A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe.

"A high school math teacher drifts from a moored boat to a downtown trance club, while negotiating her problematic relationship with an alcoholic older brother.

"Keen, intense, darkly comic, and accident-prone, the short fictions of David Whitton are full of sullen underdogs: his characters clean up real nice, but can't help but unravel back to t

"Seen Reading is the exciting debut collection of microfictions from Canada's pre-eminent literary voyeur, Julie Wilson.

"Enrique Tom's lives a quiet life with a large, loving family in an unnamed South American country. But Enrique has secrets.

"""In any skin purple is a heavy tone that penetrates to the core."" paulo da costa's stories get under your skin, bruise your consciousness with their exploration of

"Are You Ready to Be Lucky? If so, meet Roslyn, a spirited divorc'e eager for new beginnings. Meet Duncan, a British conman with a penchant for collecting ex-wives.

In the deep winter of 1891, on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne, known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, "Spirit Lake" has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth.

"Charlie D is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show.

"The Gifted reconfirms Gail Bowen's incomparable ability to interweave the domestic and the dramatic, and to explore the dark side of human nature while ensuring that the life-affirming p

"It's Father's Day weekend—a tough time for Charlie D, host of a late-night radio call-in show that offers supportive advice to troubled listeners.

"Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician – until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic.

""Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween—The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on.