FREE SHORT STORIES

PITCHBLENDE:

A solitary wanderer receives an unusual black stone from an Inuit woman living on the northern coast of Labrador. Believing it to be a practical aid against the bitter post-Light Canadian winters, he carries it with him, using its ability to retain heat as he travels from settlement to settlement.

As the years pass, his health begins to deteriorate, and strange disturbances intrude on his increasingly isolated existence.

PITCHBLENDE is a quiet, unsettling tale of folklore, isolation, survival, and the strange things people carry with them.

THORNS:

Decades after the Light, the Thorns surrounding Tiverton, Ontario, still guard whatever the old world buried beneath them. Three brothers, the Keatons, have come looking for treasure. Hannah has come looking for them.

Armed with a crossbow and a Geiger counter, she follows the men into a landscape designed to keep the living away.

Based on the work of Michael Brill & Safdar Abidi for Knowledge Preservation for Nuclear Waste Repositories.

MEAT COVE:

When a weary drifter follows a direction and finds Meat Cove, Cape Breton, a man who has spent his life noticing patterns must decide whether to accept the village’s generous hospitality or resist becoming something else.

THE TOE:

If you enjoy post-apocalyptic fiction with a distinctly Canadian setting, bleak landscapes, unusual survival stories and a sense of humour about the end of the world, The Toe is a short trip into the Yukon of the Warriors of the Last Days universe.

THE LAST PROTOCOL:

Two military men, hidden in a bunker, receive the orders to follow the instructions for ultimate destruction. They proceed through the motion, trying hard to not break down, as the launch sequence is initiated…