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The Art of Forgiveness
2$20.99The Art of Forgiveness is a collection of 8 linked short stories about 3 boys growing up in the suburban outskirts of Halifax. By turns quirky and hard-edged, they are never despondent, and will leave readers with hope that people—young men in this case—can grow and become better.
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INSIDE – thoughts from a pandemic
0$20.00INSIDE is an anthology of writing collected during the Covid-19 pandemic on the theme of isolation, from writers on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, and beyond. It includes Chris Benjamin’s story “Filling Up My View” a.k.a. “Solitary Spider,” the story of a young woman locked into solitary confinement at the local women’s prison, where a giant spider helps her access the outside world she longs for. The collection also includes work from Carol Bruneau, George Elliott Clarke, Jan L. Coates, Christy Ann Conlin, Terry Fallis, and more.
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Boy With a Problem
1$21.95Boy With A Problem is a collection of 12 short stories about lovable outsiders struggling with the pain of disconnection and isolation.
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Nova Scotia Love Stories
1$21.95In Nova Scotia Love Stories, some of the province’s most beloved authors explore through fact and fiction the myriad ways in which a love story exists. The collection includes Chris Benjamin’s “Operation Niblet,” story about Gerry, who embarks on a daring and stupid animal rescue mission to prove his love for his roommate Zoëy, a vegan eco-feminist. The collection also features stories by Silver Donald Cameron, Marjorie Simmins, Budge Wilson, Bruce Graham, Maureen Hull, Jon Tattrie, Lindsay Ruck, Jim Lotz, Steven Laffoley, Sheldon Currie, Harold Horwood, Carol Bruneau, Michael Ungar, William Kowalski and Don Aker.
Pottersfield Press / Nimbus Publishing publishers’ page
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Everything Is So Political – A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers
3$19.95A collection of twenty short stories, including Chris Benjamin’s “The Water Bottle Thief,” showing you can be political without being preachy. Lee Henderson wrote: “Brimming with wild imagination and stunning variety, this is one of those beautiful literary anthologies that comes along once a generation, that we’ll look back upon as the beginning of a whole new vision of Canadian fiction.”
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Drive-by Saviours
7$19.95Chris Benjamin masterfully, magically weaves together the seemingly disconnected worlds of Mark, a failed social-worker-turned-unhappy-grant-writer coming to the end of an even unhappier relationship, and Bumi, an Indonesian illegal immigrant on the run from his past and the obsessive-compulsive disorder that dogs his present. — Stephen Kimber, Author of Reparations
