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  • Until This Soul Departs

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    A Toronto inner-city hospital. January 1960. Well past midnight. There it is, the first shriek. At least the brat sounds healthy. Is that the best I can expect, just that the infant isn’t sickly—this red-faced newborn whose prospects appear so...


  • Madness, All Over Again

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    Milo is an inpatient at the Bellevue Psychiatric Institute & Hospital. He is clever, verbose, and wants absolutely nothing to do with the world outside—but doesn’t seem to want much to do with anything inside, either. He and his chatty roommate...


  • Cane Wood

    Based on True Stories
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    There are billions of people in the world and they all have their stories. This is just one of mine. A man changes a lot over the course of fifty years and in Cane Wood, ten lovely, observant short stories chronicle this journey, from an...


  • Tyrant

    A Collection of Stories
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    Tyrant is a collection of stories exploring arcane realms and dystopian landscapes. "Harness,” follows three High Riggers hired for an obscure salvage mission on an alien planet. In "Tank," a reporter interviews witnesses to a drug den at the...


  • The Society of Masterless Men

    A Love Story
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    Around the year 1749, a young Irishman named Peter Kerrivan deserted the British Navy by jumping ship in a small fishing village on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula of New Founde Lande. The Society of Masterless Men follows the true story...


  • Colors

    Stories and Poems in Different Shades
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    “Colors” is a blend of short fiction and poems folded into one collection. Rural settings both rugged and soft act equal parts with the characters. Human relations, animal relations and never ending relationships with the land itself play-out...


  • The Deposits

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    This debut novel will have you pondering your attachment to physical objects and how these hold unexplainable power to connect you with others...have you considering how your energy and actions ripple across social divides and age differences,...


  • Snow Bird

    Chasing the Sunlight
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    Jason Thunder still remembers that red lollipop—baby's first sugar high. That day, the candy was shared amongst the cousins, and he slept close to his parents. He must have been teething; his father’s knuckle tasted like guitar strings, salt, and...


  • this is all we know

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    In this second collection of short stories, Ettles offers a version of the Canadian landscape against which eccentric tales and colourful characters evoke ever-shifting perspectives on what we see and who we are. A modern working woman of 1983...


  • Sweet Memories

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    Reina Maruyama has always had sweet memories of her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. But when her father dies and her mother relocates her to Tokyo, life for Reina is turned on its head. Longing for the home she lost, she struggles to adjust, until a...