Short Stories

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Among the Saints

Among the Saints

Selected Stories

Donna E. Smyth

”Donna E. Smyth — adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter’s beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith’s malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichés and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don’t want to know, but need to know. Smyth’s writing disturbs… (more information)

Conductor of Waves

Conductor of Waves

Stories

Darcy Rhyno

”Darcy Rhyno’s stories evoke the rich history of place in a way that makes you care about it and want to know more. More than this, he snaps the reader awake by layine bare the bones of a character’s life. It is this ability to see what’s out there, and offer it back to us, unflinchingly and compellingly, that drives Rhyno’s stopries home.” Anne Simpson, author of Canterbury Beach ”Darcy Rhyno’s stories eloquently evoke the experience of growing… (more information)

Counting Crows

Counting Crows

Jenni Blackmore

This collection of stories and poems charts various pathways and detours in the universal quest for love. It’s a journey towards joy which begins with the call of a frog searching for a mate and ends as a woman inadvertently thwarts her own desire as she attempts to construct the perfect token of her love. Between these two way points, past is tightly bound to present and ready to snap back into focus at the slightest provocation. Needy characters form unlikely liaisons, they stumble over… (more information)

Passion Fruit Tea

Passion Fruit Tea

Eleonore Schönmaier

These are candid but sensitive stories about the relationship between parents and children, whether they live and work in a fishing village in Nova Scotia or in Northern Canada. “Passion Fruit Tea is one gutsy brew. Eleonore Schönmaier’s men and women will win hearts and break them, too.” —Linda Svendsen, author of Marine Life (more information)