“It was February 29 again, and I was wondering which member of my family would try to kill me this time.” From this intriguing premise, the stories in this collection of short fiction by new Canadian writers map out fifteen wildly different approaches to the same terrain. From comedies about vampire conversions and French-Canadian werewolves to tense family dramas about humanoid robots and fairy-zombie hybrids, these stories chart a new set of possibilities for short fiction in Canada today.
Author bios and Q&A's:
Colin Brezicki: read his Q&A here
Author(s)
Robin A. Blair
Robin A. Blair was born in the South Seas, and then lived for many years in a magical land down under. He moved to Canada in his youth and studied biology in the cold wastelands of Northern Ontario. His career has spanned anthropology, web design, and e-learning development.
Colin Brezicki
After teaching in England and Canada for thirty-seven years, Colin Brezicki returned to writing to try and make sense of the world — still a work in progress. A Case for Dr. Palindrome (2017) and All That Remains (2018) were published by Michael Terence (UK).
Hilary Faktor
Hilary Faktor is a writer based in Calgary, Alberta. She doesn’t enjoy trying new things and yet finds herself in random activities like adult gymnastics, downhill skiing, and canoe racing in Northern Manitoba. Hilary’s work has been published in The Globe and Mail.
J.F. Garrard
J. F. Garrard is the founder of Dark Helix Press, marketing strategist for Ricepaper Magazine, and an assistant editor for Amazing Stories Magazine.
Michelle F. Goddard
Michelle F. Goddard is an AWADJ (artist with a day job). She is a receptionist, but she is also a musician who has played around the world and a composer with credits to her name for songs performed in musicals and films.
Jennifer House
Jennifer House loves reading and writing quirky fiction and has a penchant for all things supernatural. In addition to writing fiction, Jennifer writes practical things like bylaws, policy documents, and occasionally even a newspaper article or two.
Joy Thierry Llewellyn
Joy Thierry Llewellyn is a screenwriter, story editor, writing teacher, and creative non-fiction writer with a fondness for bohemians.
Heather Bonin MacIntosh
Heather Bonin MacIntosh is a Calgary-based aspiring writer passionate about family, travel, and living well together, locally and globally.
Charlotte Morganti
Charlotte Morganti has been a burger flipper, a beer slinger, and a lawyer but always a stringer-together-of-words. She writes primarily crime fiction and when not writing (that is, procrastinating) you’ll find her kayaking, gardening, lazing about, or making tourtières.
Judith Pettersen
Judith Pettersen is a writer from Flin Flon, Manitoba. On her blog “This Northern Life,” she writes philosophically about her husband’s wardrobe, speaks her truth about hipster beards, and lectures on how to go to the bathroom on the side of the road when it’s thirty below.
Karen Ralph
Karen Ralph is a graduate of the Creative Writing Certificate programs at both the University of Guelph and Conestoga College.
V.E. Rogers
V. E. Rogers lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her partner and their two kids, all of whom inspire her creatively. Currently a stay-at-home parent, she loves hanging out in the woods having fun and wishes she could do it more often.
Jess Skoog
Jess Skoog lives in Waterloo Region with her husband and daughter. Her love of writing stems from her parents exposing her to a wide variety of authors. Top influencers throughout the years ranged from Carolyn Keene to Camus.
Arlene Somerton Smith
Arlene Somerton Smith is a television and video producer turned freelance writer who specializes in video scripts, speeches, and web content. She also writes short stories, and her work has been published in Descant and a Writer’s Digest compilation.
Michelle Tang
Michelle Tang is an oncology nurse by day and a procrastinator by night. She writes speculative fiction and lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her husband and son. She is a recovering World of Warcraft addict.