OUT-OF-PRINT CHAPBOOKS

Nemesis Girls
Stories by Christina Decarie
p. 32, 2005, ISBN 0-9680097-9-4
$6.00

Nemesis Girls is a collection of four short stories centred on growing up ordinary, angry and lustful in Kingston, Ontario (the city of contrasts) in the 1980s and then moving away wiser and thicker-skinned. Christina Decarie takes readers to the core of adolescent rivalry, teenaged longing, minimum wage frustration and then early-adult isolation in this smart, small book. Her prose is clear, unsentimental and unrelenting. Decarie is a sharp new voice packaged here in a tidy, limited edition chapbook. All copies of Nemesis Girls are signed and numbered by the author.

Folly
by Bill Brown
p. 40, 2003, ISBN 0-9680097-8-6
$8.00

Folly marks the stunning debut of a strong new voice in Canadian fiction.  In the collection's title story, Bill Brown portrays a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality amidst the hostile environs of a 1950s Ottawa suburb.  This is powerful, clear writing for readers who like their CanLit anything but sugarcoated. 

"Bill Brown creates well-crafted, yet edgy, stories that take the reader into the lives of young men.  While he explores the gay culture in depth, he creates characters of universal empathy and places them in a world we can all understand.  Brown's ability to capture people on the brink of change and his unflinching honesty make this a powerful debut." Rita Donovan

Stripe
by David Rose
p. 43, 2001, ISBN 0-9680097-6-X
$6.00

What The Danforth Review has to say about Stripe: read on.

A collection of five short stories by an accomplished writer from Middlesex, England. David Rose is a master of subtlety and flexibility, blurring styles and structures to write unique prose that bores straight to the bone. Widely published in UK magazines, anthologies and journals, this is his first book.

Salt Pork and Sunsets
by T. Anders Carson
p. 21, 1997, ISBN 0-9680097-4-3
$5.00

A collection of thirteen poems uniquely laid out with accompanying photograph’s from the estate of the author’s grandfather. T. Anders Carson’s second book, Salt Pork and Sunsets, shows the poet in full stride. Blending rage, sincerity, humour and honesty, this is a book that stands alone; testament to Carson’s commitment to the poetic art form.