A boyfriend?
Iain kept breathing and decided to play it cool. He briefly looked about the terrace and listened in on the conversation going on behind Erica, between the huge Indian man and the black woman. The Indian was holding the black woman’s hands and rubbing his nose against hers.
“Nah, baby,” he said. “I deposited that [...]
The pageant was at an interval and hands were already reaching out to brush the flies from the cake tray when a ripple of alarm passed through the barn—one might see from the rafters, with the swallows, an urgent pushing, Mrs. Swithin’s elbow knocked where she stood by the tea; the group by the cake [...]
We at Encore Literary Magazine have glanced at a few of these CanLit Best of the Decade lists floating around the “blogosphere” lately and while the appearance of certain titles causes us to roll our eyes, we choose for the moment to restrain our snarkier selves to instead offer up a pair of Canadian novels which, if there [...]
This happened a long time ago, back when I was married.
One afternoon I sat at my desk writing a letter to a company that manufactures frozen food products. I was writing to let them know I was disappointed with their meat lasagna. At one time it had been really good, this meat lasagna, quite delicious, [...]
Biblioasis has announced the winner of this year’s Metcalf-Rooke Award. The prize, given annually to the best unpublished work of fiction by a new writer, goes to A. J. Somerset for his novel Combat Camera.
Combat Camera … concerns Lucas Zane, a celebrated photographer who has burned out emotionally after covering battles in most of the wars of the late [...]
I got home around four. At least that’s what she tells me. She comes into the bedroom to wake me up, tells me she’s eating lunch and I should get up. Four in the morning, she says. You could barely talk, she says. But, I point out, I made it home okay. I couldn’t have [...]
Dragonflies by Grant Buday. Biblioasis; 165 pp; $19.95. Review: Michael Carbert
One of the curious things about The Iliad is how little attention is given to the Trojan Horse, how it was conceived and why the Trojans fell for the ruse. But in re-imagining the fall of Troy in his intriguing new novel Dragonflies, author [...]
