Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand
Stories to be gulped down and read into the late hours.
Bryn Evans
In The Bear’s House
“Find the sounds he couldn’t hear.”
Light on a Part of the Field
The Shuswap country in British Columbia is a unique place. Among the houseboats, costly beachfront condos, fruit stands and highway attractions are old, humidity-warped country homes tucked in [...]
The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning
Audrey J. Whitson’s excellent new novel,The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning, starts with the act of witching in Alberta, which is to say the story is both a complex tale and a [...]
The Shoe on the Roof
A woman dies on the operating table. Her spirit, untethered from her body, floats beyond the walls of the hospital. Once revived, she describes seeing a shoe on the roof. Doctors are skeptical of [...]
Searching for Petronius Totem
Peter Unwin’s new novel, Searching for Petronius Totem, is a grand and bewildering off-road trip into Canadian weirdness. A dystopian kitchen sink domestic drama by way of private-eye-era noir, [...]
Mr. Congeniality
Kent Hehr takes on the seemingly impossible.