Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories from the Edge
Edited by Laurence Steven
After reading the 20 stories Your Scrivener Press published in Outcrops: Northeastern Ontario Short Stories (October 2005), you might feel you know the lay of the region’s fictional landscape.
Well get ready to have your horizon expanded!
Bluffs presents a wonder-working miscellany of 19 stories, again by acclaimed, established, and emerging authors.
The collection is a sampler of forms, styles, and genres. Knowing how to "call" these Bluffs isn’t easy. Though they present characteristics of ghost stories, science fiction, mystery, satire, folktale, dark comedy, magic realism, meta-fiction, what’s common among the stories is how they surprise our expectations. Their world is not our world, though it may look like it initially. If we follow their lead, they take us to the various edges of what we know. From their cliff-edges we can both look back at our no-longer-familiar landscape, and step forward into . . .
Try calling these Bluffs—into your literary landscape . . . or step into theirs.
Lou Allin, “No Crime”
Anthony Armstrong, “The Longshot”
Jennifer Rouse Barbeau, “Grumble”
Dave Bartlett, “Extraterrextrials”
Linda M. Bayley, “The Rhythm Blues”
Lauren Carter, “Culture Shock”
Margaret Christakos, “Mrs. Lewellen”
Sean Costello, “The Apology”
Richard deMeulles, “Ramasseur”
Kim Fahner, “Elemental Grace”
Ines Habara & Christian Nelson, “The Uncalled Phone Call”
Melissa Hardy, “Lightning”
Mark Leslie, “Being Needed”
Vickie McGauley, “Hysterical”
Susie Moloney, “On the Map”
Roger Nash, “The Choirmaster”
Rob O’Flanagan, “Alien Parasites of Big Land Farm”
Richard Pulsifer, “Boomerang”
Charlie Smith, “Graveyard on Seven-Fifty”
Read brief notes on the authors here...
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Book Details
May, 2006
ISBN 1-896350-18-6
231 pp., softcover
$22.00 plus $2.00 s&h, from the publisher