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Best Canadian stories.

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  • ISSN: 0703-9476
  • Physical Description: v. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: [Ottawa] : Oberon Press, 1977-

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Formatted Contents Note:
1977. Illianna comes home / W.P. Kinsella -- Trees / W.D. Valgardson -- Travelling on / B. Harvor -- More than conquerors / J. Hodgins -- Prelude to a parking lot / E. Spencer -- Perhaps the church building itself / K. Thompson -- Cuixmala / J. Penner -- At peace / A. Copeland
1981. Identity / C. Blaise -- Food people / T. Byrnes -- The assembly / M. Gallant -- The dragon / K. Govier -- First names and empty pockets / W.P. Kinsella -- Continuity / N. Levine -- Wood / A. Munro -- the smugglers / J. Riddell -- Who he slept by / L. Svendsen -- Green things / K. Thompson.
1982. Le mal de l'air / K. Fraser -- The small birds / H. Hood -- Because of the war / N. Levine -- Prue / A. Munro -- The day I sat with Jesus... / G. Sawai -- A family hotel / J. Skvorecky -- Jean-Pierre / E. Spencer -- Desolation / F.W. Watt.
1983. New Year's Day / R. Murray -- Tulips / M. Hollingsworth -- Fame / A. Copeland -- Das Engelein kommt / G. Story -- Blue glass & flowers / M. Engel -- Hiroko writes a story / D. McFadden -- Hamburger heaven / D. Bailey -- To the watchers while walking home / E. Spencer -- Matthew & Chauncy / E.O. Phillips -- Never seek to destroy / M. Dyment -- Fury / D. Watmough -- My refugee / J. Marshall -- All I know about incest / M. Mason -- Sorrows of the flesh / I. Huggan.
1984. Grandmother / F. Itani -- Home / C. Shields -- Letters to Josef in Jerusalem / G. MacEwen -- The working class / D.L. Stein -- T / T. Marshall -- Moon watcher / B. Burnard -- Madonna / E. Spencer -- Mine / N. Keeling -- The arsonist's dream / H. Holden -- Florentine Letourneau / R. Mathews -- Elevation / A. Thomas -- Lena / M. Gallant.
1985. At Mrs. Warder's house / E. Alford -- Dulce / J. Rule -- Man in the black magic box / R.G. Sherrin -- The accident / S. Currie -- Coming of age in Canada / M. Johnson -- Django, Karfunkelstein & roses / N. Levine -- Moths / C. Windley -- I pay my rent? / W.P. Kinsella -- Avis de vente / J. Marshall -- Dog attempts to drown man in Saskatoon / D. Glover -- Under the hill / M. Engel.
1986. Miles City, Montana / A. Munro -- Rabbits / P. Lane -- A wife's story / B. Mukherjee -- Italian postcard / J. Urquhart -- Swan song, two / G. Story -- The pond, phase one / R. Sarah -- Mister Maestro / D. Margoshes -- Night flight to Attiwapiskat / P. Jiles -- In the night, Heinrich Himmler / R. Smith -- Death of a nation / E. Havemann -- Elaine's house / T. Marshall -- Bennett / L. Rooke.
1987. The blue baby / L. Rooke -- Tickets to Spain / D. Schoemperlen -- The storyteller / R. Hillis -- Pancho Villa's head / G. Gibson -- Kitenmax, the Russian Gang and the enemies of fiction / G. Geddes -- Something happened here / N. Levine -- The surgical procedure / E. McNamara -- The cost of living / K. Radu -- Flight / L. Svendsen -- The obituary writer / D. Glover.
1988. Dressing up for the carnival / C. Shields -- Bragg and Minna / T. Findley -- The other Mexico / T. Marshall -- On the road / G. Gunn -- Heaven full of astronauts / D. James-French -- Facing the precipice / R. Mistry -- Why I decide to kill myself & other jokes / D. Glover -- Blood and bone / J. Marshall -- Heart of my heart / B. Wallace -- Sluts / S. Swan -- The violent lavender beast / E. Hekkanen -- War's end / J. Rule.
1989. Gag! / D. Margoshes -- Brothers / P. Stockland -- Drawing the spaces / M. Dyment -- Souvenirs from the other shore / C. Rajani -- Brunch / D. Dinniwell -- The vision of Hohokam / S. Butala -- Wood chuck-chuck, a fairytale / J.C. Hornosty -- Deer heart / B. Burnard -- On strikes and errors in Japanese baseball / S. Heighton -- Hold me fast, don't let me pass / A. Munro.
1990. Stardust / L. Svendsen -- The harbour / P. Seaman -- The duel in Cluny Park / T. Finley -- Staircase descended / G. Bowering -- The more important things / R. Mistry -- Vermont / D. Howlett -- Love in the time of cliches / D. Schoemperlen -- The heart must from its breaking / L. Brooke.
1991. Owl-girl / M. Dyment -- Traplines / T. King -- Notes toward a descriptive catalogue of immense paintings / E. McNamara -- Chaste / M. Kenyon -- Intruders / B. Daurio -- Ice in dark water / D. Manicom -- Seduction by damask flowers / K. Andrychuk -- Aren't you glad you're not Vlad / G. McWhirter -- The keel lies underneath the water with the fish / C. Malyon -- The letter-writer / C. Rajani -- Evil eye / A. Diamond.
1992. Cervine / D. James-French -- Heaven is a place that starts with H / G. Adamson -- Zonians / L. Krueger -- A state of affairs / M. Gallant -- Casino / B. Burnard -- Emma's hands / M. Swan -- Compassion fatigue / H. da Silva -- How beautiful upon the mountains / S. Heighton -- Down to great waters / P. Stockland.
1994. La corriveau / D. Glover -- Terror, exile or despair / E. McNamara -- The last postcard from my father / P. Roscoe -- A thousand and one nights in Palmyra's bed / L. Marshy -- That good night / J. Marshall -- Summertime / R. Baillie -- Tough love / G. Stephenson -- The unwanted attention of strangers / C. Blaise -- Murder / J.C. Hornosty -- In plain sight / M. Gallant -- Long man the river / M. Hardy.
1998. Skin a flea for hide and tallow / M.A. Jarman -- Itty bitty road / R. Dearing -- Three diseases requiring an intermediate host / K. Woodward -- Montana / D. Margoshes -- Missing notes / D. Helwig -- There are bodies out there / L. Rooke -- Buried secrets / P. Roscoe -- Rumours of ascent / G. Reid -- Arithmetic and the next king / Y. Martel.
2000. Bear came over the mountain / Alice Munro -- Prayers to Buxtehude / Timothy Taylor -- In the city / Craig Takeuchi -- Mouths, open / Lisa Moore -- Lucky / Patrick Roscoe -- Mary-Lou's getting married / Michelle Berry -- Creech sisters / Cary Fagan -- Light of distant planets / Stephen Guppy.
2001. Yellow house / Leon Rooke -- Floating bridge / Alice Munro -- Apology / Ramona Dearing -- Standing on Richards / George Bowering -- Religious knowledge / Cynthia Flood -- Alcoholist / Bill Gaston -- First motion of love / Kevin Armstrong -- Art of medicine / Charlotte Gill.
2002. Unmoved / Michael Winter -- Blame Canada / Don McNeill -- Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- My white planet / Mark Anthony Jarman -- What Saffi knows / Carol Windley -- The Irish book of beasts / Bernice Friesen -- Ex libris / P.K. Page -- Comedian tire / Bill Gaston -- The maternity suite / Caroline Adderson -- So beautiful the firemen would cry / Ramona Dearing.
2003. Truth / Elyse Friedman -- Pornography / Dave Margoshes -- Contra / Lisa Moore -- Fun girls / Russell Smith -- That's all there is / Hugh Graham -- Winds of change, the winds of hope, the winds of disaster / Leon Rooke -- Act of oblivion / David Helwig -- Scribe / Mike Barnes -- One whole hour (or even more) with Proust and novocaine / Elisabeth Harvor.
2004. Scenes from a war / Adam Lewis Schroeder -- Fables of the deconstruction (the bra story with Jacques Derrida) / Mark Anthony Jarman -- Natural history / Patrick Lane -- Their own small island / Steven Heighton -- The road to Delphi / Sharon English -- Sushila is at home / Ven Begamudr -- Honeymoon / Murray Pomerance -- The breath of the turtle / Stephen Henighan -- Crackbrokeheart / Kelly Watt -- The barking dog / Kenneth J. Harvey -- Insomnis / Christy Ann Conlin.
2005. Across some dark avenue of plot he carried her body / Elisabeth Harvor -- A matter of firsts / Krista Bridge -- The organic milk rapist / Darryl Whetter -- Roppongi story / David Whitton -- Six million million miles / Michael Bryson -- Most wanted / Vivette J. Kady -- The riddles of Aramaic / Elise Levine -- A large dark / Kim Aubrey -- Stitches in Air / David Helwig.
2006. Eatings / P.K. Page -- The view from Castle Rock / Alice Munro -- Winter coat, Winter count (Assiniboia death trip) / Mark Anthony Jarman -- The advancement / Andre Narbonne -- Men of salt, men of Earth / Matt Lennox -- Bix's trumpet / Dave Margoshes -- The night window / Bill Gaston -- Balduchi's who's who / Leon Rooke -- Wakefulness / David Helwig -- Wasps / Patrick Lane.
2007. People like us / Mary Borsky -- Honouring Honey / Bill Gaston -- The stages of J. Gordon Whitehead / Steven Heighton -- The big bang / Brian Francis -- Hapless girl with a port wine stain / Patricia Young -- The quality of life / Clark Blaise -- Y / Marjorie Celona -- All true stories have loose ends / Leon Rooke -- Dream house / Terry Griggs / The anthologist takes a holiday / Keath Fraser.
2008. You can keep one thing / Kathleen Winter -- The door opener / Adrian Michael Kelly -- Fruit factory / Rebecca Rosenblum -- What boys like / Amy Jones -- Night march in the territory / Mark Anthony Jarman -- Fifteen restless nights / Diane Schoemperlen -- The pool man / Patricia Young -- Learning to dance / Cynthia Flood -- What they have / K.D. Miller -- Isfahan / Clark Blaise.
2009. A good girl / Amy Jones -- In the night / David Helwig -- Joie de viv / Terry Griggs -- Marry me / Grant Buday -- Ecce cor meum / K.D. Miller -- El dorado / Sharon Englsih -- Wire boy / Alex Leslie -- The rise and fall of hockey card empires / Joel Katelnikoff -- Pointless, incessant barking in the night / Douglas Glover -- Christmas with my mother / Rebecca Rosenblum.
2010. Daytrip / Patricia Young -- Poses / Laura Boudreau -- Summit / Annabel Lyon -- Huck / Julie Booker -- Summer of the flesh eater / Zsuzsi Gartner -- Hold Me Now / Stephen Gauer -- A little winter / Cathy Stonehouse -- A small haunting / Shaena Lambert -- THis is when I love you the most / Marjorie Celona -- Sweet / Rebecca Rosenblum.
2011. D and D report / Laura Boudreau -- Shared room on union / Steven Heighton -- That time of year / Terence Young -- Keeping the peace / Colette Maitland -- December astronauts / Mark Jarman -- Potsy and pansy / Clark Blaise -- Wandering bird / Shaena Lambert -- Sí, coyote / Claire Tacon -- Dream big / Rebecca Rosenblum -- Floating like a goat / Zsuzsi Gartner.
g 2012. Poppycock / Caroline Adderson -- MacInney's strong / Adrian Michael Kelly -- Family stories / Marjorie Celona -- Canary / Nancy Jo Cullen -- Sun lord and the royal child / Douglas Glover -- War between the men and the women / Shaena Lambert -- Dogs in clothes / Lynn Coady -- Lucky / Nadine McInnis -- Nearing the sea, superior / Steven Heighton -- Ethical investing for the blind / Keath Fraser.
Subject: Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories, Canadian (English)
Canadian fiction > 20th century.
Canadian fiction > 21st century.

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