Ryan’s narrative successfully ebbs and flows with tension and ease, intrigue and clarity, with the characters and community coming to life. Sales of glycerine are up in the city of Calgary, and there are also reported thefts of... Read More

As hunters track their prey and danger becomes more and more imminent, a twisted and haunting past is revealed. "Chasm", the sixth book in the Frankie MacFarlane mysteries, by Susan Cummins Miller, is a suspenseful read filled with... Read More

This genre-bending thriller and love story boasts complex, lovable characters that add drama and humor. "The Merchant of Death", by Lisa Henry and J. A. Rock, is the second in an easily addictive series of action-packed, rambunctiously... Read More

This book reads like memory itself, a mixture of obviously key moments and seemingly innocuous ones that take on meaning later. With Every Minute is a Suicide, Bruce McDougall succeeds in the difficult task of putting together a series... Read More

Flashes of characters’ inner narratives reflect on human nature with exquisite prose. Matt Runkle presents a selection of fictions that are as intimate in detail as they are wide in scope and variety in The Story of How All Animals Are... Read More

Hardcore journalism meets the neighborhood gossip in this innovative collection of twelve short stories. Told secondhand and infused with a storyteller’s voice, "A Room of Rain" takes the literary tourist on gripping, tour-bus-style... Read More

Hart’s micro-fiction bursts through traditional genres, and her narratives make fun and absurd leaps in reality. “Isn’t it enough that I’m alive?” students ask their parents before being shot and eaten by school administrators... Read More

Takolander’s talent for narrating intimate tragedies across age, gender, and time reveals her as a master of the quiet and deeply personal storm. As a first book of short fiction, "The Double" is surprisingly eerie, restrained, and... Read More