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By Tim Wynne-Jones. 1999
By Ven Begamudré. 1997
By Jon Paul Fiorentino, Katrina Best. 2010
In this collection of short stories, a thirty-year-old woman who still lives at home anticipates the experience of a third…
date; a teenaged vegetarian supermarket cashier struggles to scan a package of offal; an inscrutable pelican in a crowded London park decides to try something different for dinner. 2010.By John Gould. 2003
This collection of short stories presents characters ceaselessly questioning their choices throughout life: a widower bemoans his son's interest in…
meditation, rather than the more easily understood sex and drugs; a father remembers to pick up his child for soccer practice, as a school shooting plays out on television; a teacher repeats her literature lecture for her lover, who listens on his deathbed. Some strong language. 2003.By Marnie Woodrow. 1996
By Bill Gaston. 2006
Stories crafted around the idea of the gargoyle - the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions; the physical manifestations…
of the disfigurements and contortions to which human beings subject themselves. Each story has a strange and unique gargoyle guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent, presence informs the characters and their actions. Strong language. 2006.By Diane Schoemperlen. 1998
Schoemperlen's stories explore the nature of devotion in its many forms, from the devotion to material objects and daily rituals,…
to the pleasures of the body and the pains of romantic love. Some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 1998.By Alan Maitland. 1994
A collection of short stories selected by Canada's favourite storyteller, "Fireside Al." From classics by Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan…
Poe, to Canadian works by Stephen Leacock, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro. A combination of old and new stories are presented. 1994. Buggam Grange / The story of the goblins who stole a sexton / The loons / The little match girl / Tobermory / Death of a pig / Meneseteung / The ant and the grasshopper / An orange from Portugal / The Highwayman / An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Everyday use / After twenty years / Bicycle / Trap lines / The fable of the man with the golden brain / Back for Christmas / Roots / The tranter's party / The lady or the tiger / Morgan Morgan / The tell-tale heart / Hoofbeats on a bridge / Two friends / An evening with Dickens in Manitou Town Hall / The queer chair, or the bagman's story /By Carol Shields. 2000
By Sheila Fischman, Lise Bissonnette. 1998
The thread of cruelty runs through these short stories, translated from the French. They convey the betrayal inherent in love…
stories, try to dispel all illusions, and approve of malice as a state of grace. And they describe final vengeance as often forging the most lasting ties between people. 1998. Uniform title: Quittes et doubles.By Douglas H Glover. 1996
By Shree Ghatage. 1997
A young woman orphaned in adolescence finally understands love; a man tries to continue the family line, only to have…
each wife die; and a mother rejects a possible wife for her son because she obsessively lives her life by the number five. A collection of short stories taking place in India's urban south, articulating the minutiae of daily life.By Dianne Warren. 2002
By P. K Page. 2001
By Margaret Atwood. 2006
A collection of short stories, including parodies of fairy tales and fables, a tale which encapsulates the divide between men…
and women, and an account of the remarkably thuggish population of a small, out-of-the-way island. Atwood dissects our habit of seeing the world in terms of "we" and "them," and our refusal to face the facts of environmental degradation. 2006.By Carol Shields. 2000
By Yann Martel. 2004
A Canadian student's life is changed when he hears the Rankin Concerto, written in honour of a Vietnam veteran; a…
prison warden reports to a mother on her son's last moments before he is executed; a surreal fable is presented in which mirrors are made from memories. In the title novella, Paul, a young man, is dying of AIDS, and his student mentor at college devises a plan to keep him engaged in life. They will invent the story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, which will have 100 chapters, each thematically linked to an event of the 20th century. Strong language. 2004, c1993.By John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.By W. D Valgardson. 1997
In this collection of eight stories, the characters must use their own wits to solve the problems they face. In…
the title story, two friends clean out litter from a creek, and are rewarded in the autumn by seeing some fish return to the waters. Grades 3-6.By Darryl Whetter. 2003
Thirteen provocative stories offer lots of sex, a bit of violence, and a wickedly clever exploration of human nature. Backed…
into emotional corners, story characters are creatures of feckless energy and intermittent idealism. From the classroom to the laundromat, from Paris to the mosquito-infested Ontario bush, the author dissects a portion of human experience. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. 2003.