On August 30, 1995, 18-year-old Torontonian Stacey Levitt, out jogging after her shift as a lifeguard, was struck and killed by a car. Her death caused an outpouring of grief not just among family and friends but in a larger community shocked by the tragic loss, so early, of such a beautiful life. She was a superior dancer and athlete, a top student, and a friend to many.And she was a gifted young poet. From the age of eight, Stacey demonstrated an extraordinary ability to capture ...

The third graphic novel adventure featuring Dean Koontz’s hugely popular character, Odd Thomas – the small-town fry-cook who can see the dead.Odd Thomas’s bestselling author friend, Ozzie Boone, asks Odd to pay a call on an old friend: Hollywood producer Nedra Nolan, who has just bought a dilapidated mansion in Pico Mundo and hopes to make it her retirement hideaway.However, mysterious occurrences – windows opening of their own accord, rooms going cold, and chandeliers cras...

City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner)In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five “miniatures” that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience – through the rear window.Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routine...

Exploring grief, yet neither bleak nor overwrought, this powerful short story won the 2013 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition. The judge, Carl Nixon, commended its 'seemingly effortless artistry' and its skilful and well-sustained handling of demanding narrative techniques: 'the author does not miss a beat', he said. Cleverly juxtaposing the past and present, the narrator draws the reader into her life. The judge concluded: 'Beautifully controlled use of simile and ...

Butch did a bad, bad thing. He went against his owner's orders, and he bit the postman. Unbeknownst to Butch, though, the postman was a werewolf. We all know what happens when a werewolf bites a human... but what happens when a dog bites a werewolf?Don't Bite the Postman, Puppies! is a short story, approximately 9 (print) pages in length.

A startling late-night discovery in a cemetery teaches a young man that giving in to curiosity can come with deadly consequences.

In her second collection of poetry, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. With her unique and engaging voice that mixes pop culture, archaic mysticism, and inventiveness with lyric forms, these poems play with reality and fantasy, distorting perception, and are universal and personal at once.

Out of the Solitary Mind is a collection of fifteen poems depicting mostly of what lies on the dark side of imagination; portraying sorrow, loss, death, mystery, magic, and occasionally, pleasant things, it shows of how it is like to live in a solitary world filled with sudden and rather unpleasant surprises.It may start with the pleasant story of a worm and a mango, but toward the end, it turns a rather sharp turn into a world of stirred emotions filled with the sorrowful...

From Robert Zimmermann comes From Where I Stand, an emotional debut poetry collection. Zimmermann explores strained parental relationships, loss of life, and the despair associated with grief. Alongside these darker themes, he delves into the small areas of life that often go unnoticed but become the hope we are searching for.

Love Poems to Rip Your Heart OutFind a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters’s 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins’s beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . .

Experience poetry as a way of life. Sometimes brief and often metaphorical, these poems are significant. Words that say what they really mean inspire hope, eliminates barriers commonly created by social differences, celebrates love, and embraces the pain that naturally comes with everyday living. This candid collection of poems will make you recall the beauty of thoughts that only poetry can provide.

This is the tale of initial rescue then abandonment of a cat as told by the cat. The cat struggles to survive and wants to know what a home is and have a name. The underlying story alludes to the consequences to cats and people when cats are not spayed or neutered but the fun is the spunky telling of this story. The cat is sassy and ultimately brave but his quips are totally from a cat's point of view. Rescuers of any kind of cat will appreciate this story. It's a tribute to those who resc...