The Decade in Fiction
From foot fetishes to the perils of poetic success this is the fiction that helped define Canada
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The Queen of Zilch
My dad had come downstairs that morning to warn me not to wear anything crazy at the party or do my face up like a drag queen
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A System from the North
For losing a child, she knew she would be fired. She had plenty of experience with fireable offences
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Angel Lady
Our daughter vanished. The woman looked pretty normal. She had long hair even though she was over forty. She had a brittle voice that made you listen carefully in case …
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The Last Cut
Winter sunlight streamed in through the plate-glass windows at the front of the salon; it was early still, and Eric’s new client Cara—naturally chestnut, ivory skin—sat swathed in a black …
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Prends Donc Courage
Miraculous in August that the swamplands can support life. In their heat and steam, even marsh marigolds wilt, native birds hide under mud. Twenty years of this climate have driven …
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Working Clean
Richie felt around beneath the cushion he was sitting on and pulled out a miniature Raptors basketball, then started bouncing it off the wall behind the TV
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Phantom Limb
My mother’s suffering, from a distance
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Montana Border
He drove into Lafayette at dusk, the air thick with swamp bugs outside the windows of his truck. The fights were already on. They’d put the cage up in an …
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