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Hard ol' spot : an anthology of Atlantic Canadian fiction / selected by Mike Heffernan ; illustrated by Darren Whalen.

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Killick Press, c2009.

Atlantic Provinces -- Fiction.

9781897174487 (trade pbk.)

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174 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"Fiction by Michael Crummey, Sara Tilley, Michelle Butler Hallett, and many others"--Back cover.

The brightest sliver of redemption: an introduction to Hard ol' spot / Kathleen Winter -- Break, break, break / Gerard Collins -- Drive-thru / Elizabeth Blanchard -- The chain around my neck / Leslie Vryenhock -- Eminent domain / Michelle Butler Hallett -- A hole full of nothing / Steve Vernon -- Night divides the day / Lee D. Thompson -- Homecoming / Keith Collier -- Sky / Joanne Soper-Cook -- Hold out / Gerard Collins -- The night watchman / Michael Crummey -- Her adolescence / Sara Tilley -- At sea / Don Roy -- Everything was lost in the fire / Craig Francis Power -- An apology / Ramona Dearing -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements.

"Following in the tradition of Edgar Allen Poe and Oscar Wilde, St. John's author Mike Heffernan has created an antholoy of uniquely east-coast fiction: twisted, macabre, eery and compelling. The fourteen stories include work by such award-winning writers as Michael Crummey, Ramona Dearing, Jo-Anne Soper-Cook and many others. The foreword has been written by another award-winning Newfoundland writer - Kathleen Winter. Hard Ol' Spot is full of viceral imagery. Readers will be confronted by immigrant strangers in lonesome towns, and a suburb where rape is a girl's first romance. These are stories of lost dreams, oceans that can swallow a man whole, and tales where personal sorrow is whipped by the wind until it becomes bitter and bloody. For anyone who likes their literature written with a ragged quill pen, a messy inkpot, and a sinister edge, Hard Ol' Spot brings us the dark beauty of Atlantic-Canadian fiction."--Killick Press.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

Heffernan, Mike, 1978-

Whalan, Darren.

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