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  • A Nasty Piece of Work

    number one
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    J. Andersen loves to play with expectations. An ode to a city turns into a collection of its flaws. A beautiful waitress takes her belly button off at night. An embarrassed son watches his father choke to death on the very thing the son hates so...


  • Compassion Fatigue

    ...and Other Stories of the Indecent Past, Weird Present, and Feared Future
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    A father comforts his young son, hoping against hope their last little island of the Azorean archipelago won’t be strip mined by the Singularity. A couple choose a cheap upload for the consciousness of their young daughter who is dying from a...


  • Lives & Spaces

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    The stories in LIVES & SPACES range from twisted emotions to tenderness; from greed to brutality; from ascendency to failure; from loneliness to death. The broad range of circumstances provide the scope of the stories. Each story encapsulates the...


  • The Mountain Girl

    Stories from the Himalayas
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    It is the year 1972 and God is alive and well in India. Many young seekers journey from the West to explore yoga and meditation in the land of its origin. In "The Retreat", a young couple's decision to meditate together in a cave leads to endless...


  • Skiing the Guggenheim

    The Colossal Adventures of an Armchair Curmudgeon (& Other Stories)
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    I use the wall as the tapestry to weave together times throughout history. Carruthers informed me. We are, after all, connected. Don’t you think? By the gentle sweeping of a grandfather clock’s pendulum, Christmas returns each year to provide us...


  • Stuffed Animals

    A Collection of Microfiction
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    Stuffed Animals is a collection of haunting, sparsely wrought micro fiction. Each story invites the reader in and then delights and torments them with surprises and plot twists. Whether you are in the mood for black humour, spine-tingling horror,...


  • Look Up

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    These are short stories. Ranging from a Hit Man becoming infatuated with the person he is meant to kill to a person getting into a philosophical debate with their executioner to answering the fundamental nature of consciousness, these stories...


  • Life Orbits The Barn

    ...and other short stories
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    Lyndenn Behm draws on personal experience to tell stories set in the world of Prairie farms, small towns and First Nations. Some of the tales are pure in their sincerity; others are comical and may seem far fetched, but people who have lived in...


  • Tales My Father Told Me*

    *When Mother Wasn't Home
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    In this original collection of short stories, author E. R. Morris updates classic nursery rhymes and fairytales with a modern, grown-up bent. Written with other adults in mind—especially grandparents—Morris gives these well-worn tales a wry...


  • Wandering Thoughts

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    This collection of poetry, prose, open political letters, lyrics, and short stories is mostly autobiographical and entirely illuminating. It is the poignant tale of a life marked by loss but also by strength of character and the will to push...