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  • DeBrand's Invite

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    Trying to make amends for an outburst blasted at a bus driver the Friday before sets off a day of unfortunate occurrences. With Debrand unaware of an impending invite from an alien with hopes of enrolling Debrand as an emissary was the furthest...


  • this is all we know

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    In this second collection of short stories, Ettles offers a version of the Canadian landscape against which eccentric tales and colourful characters evoke ever-shifting perspectives on what we see and who we are. A modern working woman of 1983...


  • California Bound and Gagged

    Fear and loathing in San-Dementia
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    Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of...


  • Dinner With The Dead

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    Welcome to Dinner with the Dead, hold on to your head. Dress to distress. Champagne or moonshine, to your liking. Cheers, let’s celebrate the years! Thus begins a night to remember at the Infinite Inn. The story of a most unusual dinner party is...


  • Jack in Pemberland

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    Here it is finally, Jack in Pemberland, the extraordinary story of the hidden city of 100,000 people in the Cayoosh Range in British Columbia. Follow Jack as he gets to know what makes the city tick. Discover how Pemberland provides housing at so...


  • Winds of Change

    (and a whisper)
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    “In the tradition of Stephen Leacock and C.S. Lewis . . . Your writings are thoughtful, educational, and entertaining and carry relevant messages to people living in challenging times.” —Dr. James Lunney, MP (retired) “Deep, thought provoking,...


  • Brutus Nation 2

    Hammer of the Hogs
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    “I saw an opening. A chance to go legit and make more money than we ever thought possible. All thanks to the unique brew that is Bronson-North. I saw this plump, juicy, succulent swine just begging to be slaughtered.” – Don Esteban Welcome back...


  • The Pope Moves to Manyberries

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    The Pope walks out of the Vatican and into the rest of the world. He quickly becomes more famous than he ever was, and sightings of the Pope are reported across the globe including The Last Ranchman bar in Manyberries, a village in the lower...


  • Sir Middling U

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    A cheeky tale of campus folly! Things aren’t going well for James Duffy. The beleaguered communications director of Sir Richard Middling University is struggling to do the right thing while navigating the quirks and minefields of campus politics....


  • Look Up

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    These are short stories. Ranging from a Hit Man becoming infatuated with the person he is meant to kill to a person getting into a philosophical debate with their executioner to answering the fundamental nature of consciousness, these stories...