Canada & Europe

Every patient tells a story. It is written on our bodies when we don’t have the words to share. I’m…

I’ll never forget that evening. I was sitting where the late sun falls on our threshing area, hulling broad beans.…

On a warm August day in 2011, my dad pulled into my driveway on the Lanark Road. I would soon…

Ida’s seven children delivered a theatrical speech and then waited for the ensuing applause. It was a circus performance. Later,…

the body that I love lives somewhere between the 3rd and 4th surgeries. before venom coarsed its veins, pursuing survival once…

Abuelo draws maps of London from memory. In the afternoons, he comes home full of coffee and gossip, a copy…

I’m not sure if it was my daughter, my mother or I who, one fall day after school, threw hollyhock…

‘The Stone Bench’ was shortlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   Niccolo rolls 12 cigarettes, one at time,…

‘Damn you, Annabeth!’  Mama came at me with an empty Pall Mall carton, twisted it in my face. I politely…

Paris, 19 August 2021 Chère Simone, My latest attempt to write your story is a failure. ‘Laboured,’ says my editor,…

‘Mass Effect’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   Eddie starts counting when he notices the familiar…

'Provenance' was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  

‘Wherever Mister Jensen Went’ was the regional winner from Canada and Europe of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  …

  Της Κωνσταντίας Σωτηρίου   -Εν να βασανιστεί πολλά. -Έσσιειθκυό ώρες που άρκεψεν τζαι εν ακόμα στην αρκήν. -Έσσιει κανέναν…

On the day of the storm, the Natural History Museum of Jerusalem was flooded, its glass display cases shattered, and…

‘Love-life’ was shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.   How’s your love-life? my father asks. He is drunk. We…