"Vivid language powers the highly inventive narrative of Michael Mirolla's new collection as he navigates vast science and speculative fiction territories. These are bold voyages, to limitless expanses that defy convention--travels beyond the boundaries of the familiar, to cosmic...
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Mussolini clones that won't stay dead. The power to re-create others—forever. Memory and identity are no longer unique. Trapped inside the cloning facility at a time when humans are undergoing their final death rattle on a prion-infected earth, Fausto struggles to re-create the w...
"The Last News Vendor is the story of a one-legged news vendor with a dilapidated newsstand, an exotic dancer with a penchant for witchcraft, and an existentialist narrator who develops a plan to fade out of his own life in a subversive and comically absurd attempt at self-preser...
The Collection Agency Files is a faux translation from the German consisting of five sections and a fragment of a sixth relating to events that take place during and immediately after the Second World War. Blending historical facts and alternative history themes, it chronicles th...
"A profound collection of poetry that seeks to inspire the reader to ask questions. Blending poetry with philosophy."-- Provided by publisher.
"In the binary world of Michael Mirolla's stories, magical realms blend with the natural, our "familiar" world exposed through a hyper-realistic and mysterious lens. Daily life and ordinary occurrences acquire new focus through transcendental optics, revealing the marvellous, fan...
"Brevity is the soul of wit, as William Shakespeare wrote in one of his longer plays, Hamlet. Flash Fiction, brief stories, have become one of the most exciting sub-genres of contemporary fiction. In This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, Guernica Editions features...
"Fleeing Stalin's advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child's life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer saved he...
This is the story of Guido, but it is also the story of all immigrants who left their homes behind to start life anew in unknown lands where they had to learn new ways of doing things, of speaking, etc. At the age of 13, Guido left his Italian region Marche and arrived in Canada ...
James Deahl has been called "one of the ten or twenty finest poets writing in the English language." His poetry has been described as "precise articulations of landscape ..." producing "a highly charged evocation of place ... that it is as if the reader were the first person to s...
"Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, friends--they all get into the act in Michael Mirolla's Lessons in Relationship Dyads. Harsh lessons, sweet lessons, bitter lessons, faux lessons--these are tales that probe not just the primary relationships...
"Adversity is a sweet gift wrapped in soiled newsprint. Pain is a reminder that we are still alive. Anxiety is fear of tomorrow, and guilt is fear of yesterday. At the bottom end, it's about scrutinizing the tiny stuff that nobody cares about. Rocks, dead leaves, dirt, lint, dust...
"The House on 14th Avenue is about paired and shared lives, featuring two people whose connection sometimes seemed forced and uneven. That of master and slave. That of trembling and acceptance. Some of the poems detail each individually, a scraping together of momentary identitie...
The landlord, the husband, the wife, and the lover. Giulio di Orio, an assistant lecturer in Philosophy, brings one of his students, known as Torp-short for Torpedo-to the Vancouver flat he shares with his wife Nicole. Soon their landlord is convinced that Torp is the devil incar...
"Victor makes an ethical commitment. The reverberations of that choice surface in Canada, Egypt and Greece. Moving from a lecture hall in Montreal to a detention centre in Alexandria, from a descent into the catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa to a vista high over the ports of Piraeus, f...