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My Uncle Roy Was A Mob Guy
By Len Gasparini
p. 36, 2006, ISBN 0-9780200-0-6

$8.00

Len Gasparini shows his flexible might in this collection of biting short fiction. From comical insights into mobster life, to the lustful Jamaican wanderings of a loner seeking a dash of danger, to sudden yearning between strangers stranded by an Italian snowstorm – Gasparini knows humanity is often comprised of equal parts beauty and ugliness. Gasparini is a valuable asset to Canadian literature, a potent antidote to its middling mainstream musings. He is at his best in this succinct collection of visceral short fiction.

“Gasparini’s descriptive skills and psychological insights are repeatedly evident. His dialogue is bracingly candid.”

The Globe and Mail

Outside
By Salvatore Difalco
p. 36, 2006, ISBN 0-9780200-1-4
$8.00

Salvatore Difalco’s fiction is a finely blended mix of toughness, street-smart insights and violence, along with flashes of tenderness and compassion. In the four stories in Outside, he takes readers inside the minds of raging youth, confused, yearning males and various damaged characters teetering on the brink, one small step from either redemption or damnation. This is honest, from-the-gut storytelling told with style and verve.

 

Spray Job
by Harold Hoefle
p. 36, 2003, ISBN 0-9680097-7-8
$8.00

What's The Danforth Review saying about Spray Job?  Read on.

Spray Job introduces the short fiction of one of Canada's rising literary stars.  Harold Hoefle's fiction achieves the nearly impossible: it seamlessly blends an international flavour devoid of pretence with a clear eye for what's going on around the corner, at the end of the street, or down at the neighbourhood pub in just about any Canadian community.  Hoefle's voice is one that will be heard from again.  Catch his work early as he ascends.

"Hoefle's narrators are modern-day versions of the ancient mariners.  His stories show the persistence of our quest myths.  They are tales of yearning, conflict and adventure."

Michael Bryson, The Danforth Review

Blindin One Eye and Drunk on Cotton Candy
by Matthew Firth
p. 18, 1997, ISBN 0-9680097-3-5
$4.00

Still in print, this is the author’s second chapbook. His first, Scattered Among the Heathen, is out of print. This collection of six short stories marks the evolution of Firth’s style, from black comedy to subtle dark realism.