Fiction

CHARLES BROWN
Things That Scatter

“Sanaaq! Qumaq’s blood is too weak and the same is true for Aanikallak’s. They’ll both have to go to hospital!” From Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, the first ever Inuit novel.

Spencer Lucas Oakes
Fiction
Bloom of Youth

"The waiting room was filled with junkies. During my visit, the doctor almost fell asleep. He sent me for some tests, but lost the results."

DAVID CLERSON
City Within

Rambunctious children bother Comrade Gas Jockey, Crazy Sea Foam and a man named 3.14 in Granma Nineteen and the Soviet's Secret by Ondjaki.

K'ARI FISHER
Don't Worry, Leonardo Has a Plan

"My daughter has fallen in love with a professional hockey player. He refers to her as his puck bunny, which I have decided to find cute."

Susie Taylor
Fiction
Do You Know Who I Am B’y?

Go to bed. Lock the door. Don’t open it for anyone.

BERNICE WICK
Fiction
Teleportation Blues

“It's often triggered by group settings. Especially groups laughing.”

LOUIS-KARL PICARD-SIOUI
Hannibalo-God-Mozilla Against the Great Cosmic Void

"I hate feeling sorry for people, because the world isn't perfect and I can't feel sorry for every unfortunate bastard I come across."

CARY FAGAN
Laughing Heir

"How do people shake off the embarrassment of being themselves, ignore the distastefulness of all that is human and just get along?"

JACOB WREN
Ground Zero

"And my theory about professional artists was as follows: Artists are not necessarily the most creative or inspired individuals in any given community."

CAROLE GLASSER LANGILLE
Consolation

The Only Other Gay in Edmonton had his own apartment and his own gay boyfriend and a stack of gay jeans that hit the ceiling.

DAVID MILNE
Conversation with Victor Frankenstein

Did the baby understand? Not just ‘go potty’ or ‘bad boy’ but circular concepts of loss and betrayal and identity and love?

SUE GOYETTE
Fiction
Fidelity

"I just had to pick up the phone and say, 'Bree, get the Ashtray' and she’d fetch the Buick from guest parking and pull up to the front door"

TANJA BARTEL
Current Phobia

A young boy gets his first pair of tweezers after overhearing locker room conversations about body hair in this excerpt from God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya.

MICHELLE ELRICK
Fiction
Ethelbert: Ten Days in May

The last interview of Crad Kilodney, as written by Crad Kilodney.

ANDREW BODEN
Shack Stories

An excerpt from Moss-Haired Girl by R.H. Slansky, the winning entry in the 2013 International 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest.

SHANNON WEBB-CAMPBELL
Star of the Sea

Despite the distracting jewellery, the cleavage and the exercised bodies, we look in the mirror and say, What happened? By M.A.C. Farrant.

DAVID FRANK GOMES
Co-Dependence Day

A sleepwalking old man brings a community together in the waves of the sea.

JEAN-MICHEL FORTIER
Mr. Guest

The documentary filmmaker, a jean-jacketed young woman with a silver crescent in her nose, wanted me to Share My Story.

DOUG DIACZUK
Blood and Berries

Jenny didn’t have to run away to join the circus—it came to her. But not with midgets, bearded ladies or elephant men in tow. No sir, the circus had gone out and bought itself some style.

CLAUDIO GAUDIO
Fiction
Say Anything

"Nietzsche, for example, thought his pen was a hammer, but he may have been mistaken because German professors rarely did their own carpentry."

ERIC DUPONT
Fiction
Trouble at the Henhouse

"I now know that every omelette, every angel cake, every soufflé, and every bucket of Colonel Sanders’ fried chicken brings us closer to a better, more intelligent world, where cruelty and pettiness do not exist."

ANAKANA SCHOFIELD
The Archaeologists, Chapter 32: Hal—Thursday, June 26

"Naked men. At each other all the time, all day long. I can’t get it out of my head."

HAL NIEDZVIECKI
Fiction
The Archaeologists, Chapter 27: Susan—Monday, April 21

Chapter 27 of Hal Niedzviecki's new novel, The Archaeologists, serialized in Geist and four other Canadian literary magazines.

MICHAEL CRUMMEY
Making The Fish

A young girl gets a taste of show business by acting as Sleeping Beauty in a sideshow.