Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author)
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The Mountain Girl
Stories from the Himalayas by Mark Batterbury
It is the year 1972 and God is alive and well in India. Many young seekers journey from the West to explore yoga and meditation in the land of its origin. In "The Retreat", a young couple's decision to meditate together in a cave leads to endless...
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Skiing the Guggenheim
The Colossal Adventures of an Armchair Curmudgeon (& Other Stories) by Ross A. McCoubrey
I use the wall as the tapestry to weave together times throughout history. Carruthers informed me. We are, after all, connected. Don’t you think? By the gentle sweeping of a grandfather clock’s pendulum, Christmas returns each year to provide us...
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Stuffed Animals
A Collection of Microfiction by Wayne Johnston
Stuffed Animals is a collection of haunting, sparsely wrought micro fiction. Each story invites the reader in and then delights and torments them with surprises and plot twists. Whether you are in the mood for black humour, spine-tingling horror,...
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Look Up
by Kenneth Thompson
These are short stories. Ranging from a Hit Man becoming infatuated with the person he is meant to kill to a person getting into a philosophical debate with their executioner to answering the fundamental nature of consciousness, these stories...
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Life Orbits The Barn
...and other short stories by Lyndenn Behm
Lyndenn Behm draws on personal experience to tell stories set in the world of Prairie farms, small towns and First Nations. Some of the tales are pure in their sincerity; others are comical and may seem far fetched, but people who have lived in...
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Tales My Father Told Me*
*When Mother Wasn't Home by E. R. Morris
In this original collection of short stories, author E. R. Morris updates classic nursery rhymes and fairytales with a modern, grown-up bent. Written with other adults in mind—especially grandparents—Morris gives these well-worn tales a wry...
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Wandering Thoughts
by John Oross
This collection of poetry, prose, open political letters, lyrics, and short stories is mostly autobiographical and entirely illuminating. It is the poignant tale of a life marked by loss but also by strength of character and the will to push...
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Bedtime Stories for Women Who Can't Sleep at Night
Tales and Reminiscences for the Awakened Woman by Laurissa Wieler
Is there anything better than sleeping deeply, and waking up to a rising dawn with a smile? Studies show that 57 percent of North American women experience insomnia at least a few times a week, making their way through restless nights as best...
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A Bedouin Dies in the City
And Other Works by Muna Abougoush
A Bedouin Dies in the City is a deep, introspective collection of short stories and poems that will challenge readers’ thoughts and feelings regarding a variety of topics, from faith to identity to love, revenge, and death. Above all, it calls...
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A Pocketful of Starlight
by Rubyha McKenzie
A Pocketful of Starlight is a collection of twenty-three vignettes of the human condition, beautifully supported by the magical water-colours of Denise Williams. Some are wrapped in the genre of fairy tale, and the trappings of times past; some...
