SHORT STORIES: THE TALES OF THE LAST DAYS
Canada is a vast country with a short memory. But it now has short stories!
These short stories remember.
Set in every province and territory, each short stories are rooted in the specific history, geography, and mythology of the place it inhabits. Warriors of the Last Days, its novels and short stories, are building a Canadian mythology that does not exist at this scale. One story at a time. One province at a time.
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TALES OF THE LAST DAYS SHORT STORIES
ALBERTA’S SHORT STORIES TETRAPTYCH
(IN ORDER OF READING)
THE VALLEY
Something has been eating Gaétan Beaumont’s cattle. When he finds it in the coulees, the problem gets considerably larger.
THE WOLF
The cattle losses stopped when the creature left for Calgary. Then they started again. Different this time. Cleaner. Something that knows this land as well as Gaétan does — because it grew up on it.
THE HUNGER
When a wandering operator leaves the city after his mother’s death, a weathered, directionless man must walk northeast across a frozen highway, survive the winter, and confront the father he abandoned before hunger, memory, and old patterns destroy what’s left.
RIBS
Two voices: one furred, one human, collide in a ruined city. A story of hunger as motive and memory as map, told in an intimate, unsettling dual point of view.
MOKSGM’OL
When an unexplained Light alters the old-growth mycorrhizal network, a Gitga’at guardian must trace a cream-white Kermode bear that now carries the forest’s changed memory before that new chemistry remaps the coast and erases his people’s ways.
HAIDA GWAII
When cedar in his shed begins to map a face of its own, an expert carver with more reverence than certainty must reconcile craft, tradition, and a spreading forest intelligence before the waiting pod and the island itself force a reckoning.
OGOPOGO/N’HA-A-ITK
When a man who’s spent eleven years defanging a legend with patter finally meets the real thing at dusk, he must answer a cultural obligation he’s spent his whole life avoiding and decide what he’s willing to carry home.
TOWING THE LINE
A census worker documents a lakeside camp and watches a torch-fisher draw something from the dark. When the line claims a life, she faces a place whose name, and memory, will not be contained.
FLIN FLON’S SHORT STORIES TRYPTIC
(IN READING ORDER)
FLIN FLON’S HOLE
When a salvage team fails to return from Sub‑Level 9, a pragmatic forewoman haunted by loss must lead a small crew into a warm, impossible cavity, map, read, and stop whatever is signalling through stone before curiosity becomes a contagion.
THE EXPECTED
When an underground passage begins speaking in marks only she can read, Olivia, a precise assessor haunted by premonitory intuition, must follow the signal into a sealed chamber to learn its intent before those above seal the level forever.
THE SUNLESS CITY
When Olivia arrives at the central node of a sixty-five-million-year-old city, a reluctant translator of two natures must read the network’s simultaneous language and choose where she belongs, while the world above moves to close the door.
THE BORE
When a lifetime shoreline watcher detects unnatural growths and a trailing depression advancing inland, a meticulous, stubborn recorder (Marie Polchies) must convince her community to evacuate before the bore reaches the road in days and the tide swallows what remains of their shore.
SILENCE:
When regional broadcasts stop and institutional communication collapses, a weary bilingual coordinator must keep essential services bilingual and hold his community’s fragile trust before language becomes the fault line that breaks the town.
SANDRINE’S CROSSING
When a traveling nurse who walked across the ice begins to feel inexplicably “very well,” she must carry a set of notebooks west and find someone who will stop her before whatever follows her crosses the mainland.
THE AFTERMATH
When the painted houses begin to lose their light and people grow tired in a way sleep can’t fix, Mun Wavey, a reserved householder, must find what’s taking the city’s brightness before the harbour’s lifeline and the city itself fall silent
THE SAHTÚGOT
A nuclear inspector travels north to document an impossible blue glow and finds a community’s prophecy, a diver’s vanished report, and a lake that keeps what was taken. An atmospheric moral thriller about memory, accountability, and the depth at which guilt settles.
TRIOXIDE:
When the backup generator fails seven days after the Light, a systems engineer and a Yellowknives Dene rights-holder must salvage truth and names from logs and drafts to prevent history from being erased as contamination migrates to the river.
MEAT COVE
When a weary drifter follows a direction and finds Meat Cove, a man who has spent his life noticing patterns must decide whether to accept the village’s generous hospitality or resist becoming the next recorded visitor the sea requires.
THE RED HILLS
After instruments detect a 1.7-km subsurface anomaly with walls too precise for nature, a pair of scientists must reconcile measurement and myth to stop the tide from uncovering a two-hundred-million-year-old secret that may not want to remain sealed.
ADLIVUN: THOSE WHO LIVE BENEATH US
When supply lines collapse and the ice begins to behave strangely, a careful hunter named Taktuq must follow a forgotten line of Inuksuit to the sea to learn what the water now hides before whatever waits beneath the lead changes the community’s future forever.
IJIRAIT: TOO FAR NORTH
When he detours to deliver a tropical postcard to Canada’s northernmost community, a stubborn mail driver must document and escape a subtle, contagious distortion of perception, one that steals whole moments from his memory, before the route itself becomes unreadable.
CANADIAN SHIELD SHORT STORIES DYPTIC:
THE BAY
When deep scans resolve a hockey-rink-sized hand pressed under the Canadian Shield, a stubborn, old‑school surveyor who trusts rock over instruments must prove an ancient presence is waking and evacuate the coast before the readings cross the danger line.
THE SHIELD
When seismic signatures point from a mine toward an impossible reading at Hudson Bay, a methodical field scientist must confirm and explain a colossal subsurface anomaly before its slow reanimation threatens the northern continent.
These two short stories complete a crossover The Red Hills story, set in Nova Scotia.
DEATH ROW SHORT STORIES DYPTIC:
CLARENCE
What happened to Clarence before the events of the Death Row novel. How did he get imprisoned in a Maximum Security Prison before the Light, but most importantly, why?
NOMI
What happened to Nomi between the Light and the day, months later, when she ended up in front of a Maximum Security prison with a shotgun, determined to free her husband still stuck inside…
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND SHORT STORIES DYPTIC:
RED
A young girl’s attempt to trade her shame for a guardian’s health uncovers an island’s long-buried claim on memory, identity, and the difference between taking and receiving.
THE BRIDGE
When the bridge breaks and radio goes dark, a quiet woman who learned the old ways from an elder must convince skeptical farmers to shift crops and share Indigenous tidal know-how to survive a winter that could erase the island’s future.
STILLNESS
When a relentless gale wind gives way to impossible stillness, a weather‑hardened farmer must outrun and expose an ecological horror spreading from the north before the silent prairie becomes a monument of bones.
THE LEGACY
When an emergency team is dispatched to an unresponsive potash facility, they must stop an emergent plant intelligence from reaching the surface and reproduce or watch the prairie be sown with something that learned to eat humans.
NOVEL RELATED SHORT STORIES
THE LULLABY
A luminous, intimate post‑apocalyptic short story about a pregnant woman hiding in a cave, an unseen threat beneath the water, and the lessons parents choose to leave their child when world and body are failing.
RENÉE FROM THE SUMP
From a stump above a flooded trench, Renée and Andy must choose whether to stay and try building a life (and possibly a family) in a fragile new settlement, or keep running.
HEADING WEST
When two travelers decide to follow her, a reluctant drifter (Una) must stop them from turning motion into settlement before the system in the east notices the cluster and chooses who survives.
THE CARVER & THE STONE
When a crippled stranger points to a reinforced door beneath the old park, a pragmatic scavenger must choose whether to seize a hidden refuge before the cave’s dark secret consumes them both.
THE PENGUINS
When an abandoned exhibit starts producing a scent that rewrites instinct, a reluctant forager must break the lure and warn the living outside.
THE TOE
When a wolverine bites off his toe while checking traps, a methodical Yukon trapper must track it, retrieve the relic, and deliver it to the Sourdough Saloon to complete a nearly century-old ritual before the loss becomes meaningless.
SPECIAL DELIVERY
When sightings of strange bipedal figures appear along his route, veteran mail driver Gary Mallet must deliver one impossible postcard and keep the communities he serves safe before the thaw unlocks something older and more dangerous.
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Each short stories are set in a different province or territory and explore different situations and themes, with different characters that are not necessarily the characters from the novels.
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Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.