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EXTRACTS
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, by Stephen Marche: an excerpt
[For the sake of readability and accessibility, the spelling and in some cases the syntax of this story have been normalized.—s.m.]
Wherever they may be, and wherever they may be from, all men do relish a hanging. The Drama of Law, with its Crime and its Pu...
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Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs: An Excerpt
I started playing my first song — “Little Bird, Little Bird,” a folk elegy about a Second World War soldier. I stood at the front of the stage but stepped down on the floor after sensing that the lyrics couldn’t be heard at the back of the hall. Before I got t...
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Lightning and Blackberries: An excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Lightning and Blackberries, by Joanne Jefferson.
I felt my heart beating harder and my breath coming in shorter bursts, but I tried to keep myself calm as I turned to retrace my steps. Thunderstorms did not frighten m...
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Nikoloski: an excerpt - Magnetic Anomaly
My name is unimportant.
It all started in September 1989, at about seven in the morning.
I’m still asleep, curled up in my sleeping bag on the living-room floor. There are cardboard boxes, rolled-up rugs, half-disassembled pieces of furniture, and tool b...
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All Souls, by Christine Schutt: an excerpt
The Girl No One Knows
Fathers
Mr. Dell, in his daughter’s room, stuck his face into the horn of a stargazer lily, one of a . . . one of a . . . must have been a dozen, and he breathed in and said wasn’t that something. And wasn’t it: the pileup of cards, a s...
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The Valley: An Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from the beginning of The Valley, by Gayle Friesen, published by Key Porter Books.
In God’s green pastures feeding, by the cool waters lie. Soft
in the evening . . . then something I don’t remember.
Waters cool, that was the ...
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Is Canada for Sale?
The following is an excerpt from Who Owns Canada Now: Old Money, New Money and The Future of Canadian Business, by Diane Francis, and published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Besides taxation, another perennial policy concern has been Canada’s rel...
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Catons Island; an excerpt from Steve Vernon's Wicked Woods
This is an excerpt from Wicked Woods, by Steve Vernon and published in 2008 by Nimbus Press.
There Will Be Blood
Catons Island
In the first month of 1611, a pair of Jesuit missionaries, Pierre Biard and Enemond Masse, set sail from France and arr...
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The Wound and the Slain
AN EXCERPT
At the other end of the bar it was crowded, and at this end he stood alone, drinking a gin-and-tonic. They made a very good gin-and-tonic at the Laurel Rock, but he wasn’t getting any taste out of it. As a matter of fact, he thought, you’r...
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Charles Dickens in Halifax
This is an excerpt from Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion; Over 300 Years of Travel Writing, edited by Lesley Choyce and published in 2005 by Pottersfield Press.
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
Halifax - 1842
Born at Portsmouth, England, in 1812, Dickens...
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Driving Minnie’s Piano
In this introduction to his memoirs, Lesley Choyce touches on several themes that the succeeding chapters will develop, including the importance of understanding place in life and in writing, surfing and the Zen philosophy, and the memories and music of his gr...
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Johnny Kellock Died Today - An Excerpt
Rosalie Norman is a twelve-year-old artist and budding detective. Against her mother’s wishes, she has been spending her Summer mornings inside, drawing from old photographs which are strictly off-limits.
As chapter two opens, Mama has slipped on some penc...
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