Literary Collections, Canadian
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Contrarian Commentary
Honesty, Wry Humour and Clarity on Canadian Living by Mel Fisher
How did bananas come to be? Who is the most useless member of society? What do language fads tell us about the history of human development? What would space aliens say about our well-kept lawns? These short pieces and essays provide...
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A Nasty Piece of Work
number one by J. Andersen
J. Andersen loves to play with expectations. An ode to a city turns into a collection of its flaws. A beautiful waitress takes her belly button off at night. An embarrassed son watches his father choke to death on the very thing the son hates so...
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Pseudo
by Dorothy Speak
In this stunning and keenly anticipated collection of stories, Dorothy Speak explores family, loss, betrayal, conflict and entrapment in narratives shining with humour, mystery and anguish. Speak has published four other highly acclaimed works,...
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My (Mostly) Manitoba Stories
by Tom Goodman
With its racial, ethnic and language diversity, Manitoba is in many resepcts the most Canadian of our Canadian provinces. My (Mostly) Manitoba Stories is a collection of short stories (mostly) set in Manitoba and spanning a timeline from the...
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How Long Have I Been Here
by Ross Klatte
How Long Have I Been Here is a collection of a variety of stories, some set in 1960s Chicago, others in Mexico around the same period and later, and still others concerned with wayward youth versus adult loneliness, with worship of a dead writer,...
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The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow
A Collection of Short Stories by William Shymkiw
This book is a collection of fiction short stories about people and their lives. The author William (Bill) Shymkiw draws on his experiences, general knowledge, and above all his imaginations to create characters, themes, and settings that are...
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Questionable Commentary
Late-Onset Contemplations from an East Coast Septuagenarian by William J. Kilfoil
This book is the result of a compilation of discursive newspaper articles from Canada's East Coast - a collection which considers a few thin slices of life in Nova Scotia over a couple of years, served up with bits of humor, nostalgia and some...
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Pearls, Pills and Vodka
by Jocelyne Mullis
Have you slipped on anything lately? Better be careful, you might end up in a retirement community! That’s what happened to Amanda after she slipped on black ice. Her move to Sunny Meadow Retirement Home is smooth enough, and her life continues...
