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The girl without anyone
By Kelli Deeth. 2001
Eleven stories following a girl called Leah growing up in a dysfunctional family in the suburbs. They bear witness to…
a girl standing on the edge, between girl and woman, between self and self-loathing, in search of love and acceptance. Despite all their failings, Leah and her family continue to have hope that love will triumph. 2001.The female of the species: tales of mystery and suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2005
From adulterers to murderers, the women portrayed here possess a killer combination of venom and vice. In "The Haunting," a…
mother reinvents herself after her husband's suspicious death. Mysterious late-night phone calls prompt an unhappy young wife to seek vengeance on her volatile mate in "So Help Me God." Explicit descriptions of sex and violence. Contains strong language. 2005.The demon lover
By David Arnason. 2002
From a chilly Canadian city to an ancient Icelandic village, these short stories span worlds both mythological and real. In…
one tale, a serpentine demon lover tempts women with his own style of forbidden fruit, while throughout, giants and other strange characters are pitted against a mischievous higher power. 2002.The ability to forget: short stories
By Norman Levine. 2003
Short stories spanning two continents and half a century. In "Gifts", a struggling family receives a timely Christmas gift from…
a mysterious benefactor, while in "The man with the notebook", a writer discovers, to his horror, that everyone he writes about dies soon after. 2003.Seventeen tomatoes: tales from Kashmir
By Jaspreet Singh. 2004
In a series of linked short stories, two Sikh boys, named Adi and Arjun, come of age in an Indian…
army camp in Kashmir. Each story builds upon a minor character from another story, creating a portrait of the border community. Some of the people the boys meet include a boatman's daughter, a captured officer, a celebrity cricket umpire, and Parachute Aunty. Some strong language. 2004.Stones
By Timothy Findley. 1988
These nine stories, which are linked in various ways, look at urban life, relationships and, especially, obsessions. The collection closes…
with "Stones", a compelling look at the landing at Dieppe told through the eyes of a boy contemplating his father's ruined life.Simple recipes: Stories
By Madeleine Thien. 2001
A collection of seven stories on the theme of family relationships. It examines the experience of alienation and the conflict…
between generations and cultures. Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Some strong language. 2001.Silent cruise: stories
By Timothy L Taylor. 2002
A collection of short stories, including the Journey Prize-winning "Doves of Townsend". In the title story, a man obsessed by…
numbers is asked to apply the cascade of digits in his brain to a critical bet on the ponies. And in "Francisco's watch", a man inherits his father's 1934 Movado wristwatch, a gift that ends up telling a story of loss. Strong language. 2002.Play the monster blind: stories
By Lynn Coady. 2000
Notes across the aisle
By Peter Carver. 1995
A collection of the best stories from Thistldown's second national competition for young adult short stories. The winning story, "How…
to tell Renata," was written by Linda Holeman of Winnipeg. 1995.North of the Equator
By Cyril Dabydeen. 2001
This collection of stories looks at the polarities of tropical and temperate places. A poet attempts to navigate the shark-infested…
corridors of a northern government bureaucracy, while elsewhere an office worker goes south to explore the nether reaches of an all-too-real Amazonia. The result is cultural hybridity, a creolization in which geography means much more than just the place where you live. 2001.Mount Appetite
By Bill Gaston, Lynn Henry. 2002
Twelve short stories, liked by the "Mount Appetite" of the title: the common theme of yearning and seeking, often involving…
addiction to substances, people, and schemes of the heart. The protagonists struggle to satiate their desires by indulging in alcohol and other vices, or, alternatively, scorning those who do. Characters range from an illiterate faith healer in New Brunswick to the articulate and illegitimate son of author Malcolm Lowry in BC. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2002.Man descending
By Guy Vanderhaeghe. 1982
Vanderhaeghe's twelve short stories come together thematically to create a chronicle of human experience. Set in locations from the Canadian…
prairies to London, England, these include the world as seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old as well as through those of an old man on the verge of senility. The stories range from farce to romance to tragedy. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Strong language. 1982.Home schooling
By Carol Windley. 2006
In the title story of this collection, Annabel struggles with her desire to escape life at Miramonte, the alternative school…
her father has founded. As she matures, she begins to understand that she is not the only member of her family trapped by her father's vision. Meanwhile, in "Family in Black," Nadia learns that people can be as changeable and at times as unreliable and indifferent as the landscape, and that happiness depends, often, on unlikely alliances. 2006.Knucklehead and other stories
By W. Mark Giles. 2003
A debut collection, these short stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the…
subdivision. They deal with unsettlingly realistic characters, from a stereo salesman obsessed with writing a "book of the dead", to a pair of suburbanites coexisting in a mutual hell of suspicion and harassment. Strong language. 2003.Kilter: 55 fictions
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.Just some stuff I wrote: stories
By William Bell. 2005
Eight short stories, exploring the highs and lows of characters struggling to belong. Fourteen-year-old Albert's sudden sense of shame at…
the grandfather he adores leads to a surprising realization in "Beer Can Man", while in "The Staircase," the aftermath of a horrible incident exposes an ugly reality at the heart of a high school. Junior High. 2005.Island: the collected short stories of Alistair MacLeod
By Alistair MacLeod. 2000
A collection of Alistair MacLeod's short stories presented chronologically in the order which they were originally written. Includes two previously…
unpublished stories, as well as works featured in "The lost salt gift of blood" and "As birds bring forth the sun."In transit: Twenty Stories
By Mavis Gallant. 1988
These short stories look at the quirks of human nature and the limits of human compassion. "The captive niece" gives…
a disquieting analysis of dependent love, while "Good deed" portrays a woman endowed with unusual capacities for malice and enchantment who becomes her own best victim. 1988.Give me your answer
By K. D Miller. 1999
This collection of short stories traces the life of Daisy Chandler from the age of five to fifty. She struggles…
to understand herself, her family, her friends, and her lovers. Each of the stories are strongly linked and they take the reader from the 1950s forward to the new millennium. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1999.