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3,000 Miles
By Jason Schneider
After Kurt CobainÓ³ suicide finally pushes him over the edge, Andre devises a plan: him and his friends will embark on a journey across North America to Seattle, where theyÓ¬l sacrifice themselves.
A Beckoning War
By Matthew Murphy
Winner:
2016 Foreword Reviews INDIES, Silver, War & Military (Adult Fiction)
Captain Jim McFarlane, a Canadian infantry officer, is coming apart at the seams. It’s September 1944, in Italy, and the allied armies are closing in on the retreating Axis powers. Exhausted and lost, ... Read more
A Crack In The Wall
By Betty Jane Hegerat
The characters in A Crack in the Wall share a strong sense of home, whether it is a lifelong sanctuary, or a shell as fragile as the person who inhabits it. A young kleptomaniac ventures outside the shaky walls of her self-imposed confinement. A middle-aged woman pragmatically ... Read more
A Good Baby
By Leon Rooke
During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. The next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with "teeth as rotten ... Read more
A New Athens
By Hugh Hood
In the second volume of The New Age, Matt Goderich is studying art history at the University of Toronto. His research leads him to the mythical town of Stoverville, where he meets his future wife and her mother, a visionary painter.
A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing
By Cecelia Frey
Jamey Popilowski dreams of becoming a rock star and Lilah Cellini dreams of Jamey. Together the young couple leave their childhood home of Terrabain Street and hit the open asphalt, kicking up a musical storm along the way. Entering their raw mix of carelessness and longing ... Read more
A Traveler's Tale
By Byron Ayanoglu
The Traveler's Tale begins in a small village in Turkey where the protagonist, Jefferson Cooper, finds himself (despite himself ). He has no idea why he is there, nor who he is. An apparent victim of some sort of selective amnesia, with a suitcase full of money and demonstrably ... Read more
A Work in Progress
By Brad Cotton
Writer Danny Bayle’s life is in shambles. His true love has left him and his grandfather—the last and most important influence in his life—has just passed away. Danny has spent the last few months languishing, unable to write a single word, but at the urging of a friend ... Read more
Aberhart Summer, The
By Bruce Allen Powe
It is the summer of 1935, and while young Doug Sayers is spending the summer going to movies and sneaking cigarettes and his friend Babe Roothe is discovering women, William Aberhart and the Social Credit Party are promising twenty-five dollars a month for everyone in Alberta. ... Read more
