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In a series of reflections focused on his uneducated yet hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the juvenile fear of dying (which sp

How does living as God's "forever people" impact our daily living?

"Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by ba

The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters.

De nos jours, on ne défend plus l’idée que les peuples autochtones conquis et colonisés étaient sans culture ou sans histoire, tout en reconnaissant néanmoins que leur histoire était obscure et leu

"Midnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of a group of strangers and family gathered together to partake in this ancient aboriginal ceremony.

From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he

Samuel Archibald’s stories come from over there: way, way over there.  They live in the woods, hunting for creatures that may or may not exist, and they sometimes go surging down the highway a

Blaise croyait qu'il avait laissé derrière lui la misère de son enfance. Que, malgré les stigmates de son passé, il deviendrait un artiste accompli.

A collection of short stories looking at the bizarre, the tragi-comic and the unbelievable elements that run through our lives.

Gisèle Villeneuve’s short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror.