THE MOMENT WE CAME ALIVE
Found Press Quarterly, Winter 2011 • $3.75
Not long ago we promised you the best writing possible, one short story at a time. Well, it’s time for us to deliver on that promise, and we couldn’t be happier with what we’ve got to share. We tracked down four fantastic authors from three different countries, spread out across two continents, and with one crucial thing in common: a damned good story. Each narrative is available for individual purchase, but we think you’ll want to buy them all—so we’ve made it easy for you. The Moment We Came Alive is FP’s first quarterly collection: a neat and tidy package of what we hope will become your favourite short stories of Winter 2011. They’re certainly ours.
Featuring stories by Cynthia Flood, Danny Goodman, Kirsty Logan, and Lana Storey, and cover art by the Winter 2011 Cover Image Contest winner Alex Lewandowski.
Not long ago we promised you the best writing possible, one short story at a time. Well, it’s time for us to deliver on that promise, and we couldn’t be happier with what we’ve got to share. We tracked down four fantastic authors from three different countries, spread out across two continents, and with one crucial thing in common: a damned good story. Each narrative is available for individual purchase, but we think you’ll want to buy them all—so we’ve made it easy for you. The Moment We Came Alive is FP’s first quarterly collection: a neat and tidy package of what we hope will become your favourite short stories of Winter 2011. They’re certainly ours.
Featuring stories by Cynthia Flood, Danny Goodman, Kirsty Logan, and Lana Storey, and cover art by the Winter 2011 Cover Image Contest winner Alex Lewandowski.
Featured Inside
Addresses
New wife and mother Julie is a woman struggling to find her place. Her dilemmas, while modest, feel harsh, and reflect the ways in which women were once denied control over their own bodies. Her first steps toward independence bring great pain—and not only to herself.
With sparing, incisive prose, Cynthia Flood unravels what it meant to be a married woman in post-war era Vancouver, creating an evocative and even unsettling experience for the reader.
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Addresses
Cynthia Flood
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New wife and mother Julie is a woman struggling to find her place. Her dilemmas, while modest, feel harsh, and reflect the ways in which women were once denied control over their own bodies. Her first steps toward independence bring great pain—and not only to herself.
With sparing, incisive prose, Cynthia Flood unravels what it meant to be a married woman in post-war era Vancouver, creating an evocative and even unsettling experience for the reader.
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Addresses
Cynthia Flood
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Somehow There Was More Here
In New York City, Ben smokes too much and sleeps with women as a way to deaden his insecurities. With every indiscretion, he fights off adulthood for one more day, until the return of an ex-lover leaves him unsure of everything. Ben’s best friend, Josh, struggles to find the good in his marriage to Maddie, even as he searches for a way to keep from losing her. Ben’s neighbor, Mrs. Aguilera, looks to make peace with those she has already lost.
Gripping tightly to one another like the oddest of families, Ben and his friends embody the place in which they live: a city where everything combines, with a touch of perfect madness, into something more than the sum of its parts.
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Somehow There
Was More Here
Danny Goodman
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In New York City, Ben smokes too much and sleeps with women as a way to deaden his insecurities. With every indiscretion, he fights off adulthood for one more day, until the return of an ex-lover leaves him unsure of everything. Ben’s best friend, Josh, struggles to find the good in his marriage to Maddie, even as he searches for a way to keep from losing her. Ben’s neighbor, Mrs. Aguilera, looks to make peace with those she has already lost.
Gripping tightly to one another like the oddest of families, Ben and his friends embody the place in which they live: a city where everything combines, with a touch of perfect madness, into something more than the sum of its parts.
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Somehow There
Was More Here
Danny Goodman
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In Our House by the Sea
Romance is candlelight on cheekbones, blurring gazes and the press of heels on strange sheets. But what happens a year later? You’re sharing bath towels and bickering over who forgot to buy a light bulb. There is beauty in a familiar hand on the nape of your neck. There is love in waking up under a shared blanket. In Our House by the Sea is about the romance of domesticity.
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In Our House
by the Sea
Kirsty Logan
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Romance is candlelight on cheekbones, blurring gazes and the press of heels on strange sheets. But what happens a year later? You’re sharing bath towels and bickering over who forgot to buy a light bulb. There is beauty in a familiar hand on the nape of your neck. There is love in waking up under a shared blanket. In Our House by the Sea is about the romance of domesticity.
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In Our House
by the Sea
Kirsty Logan
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Cross Yourself
Sometime after the incomprehensible death of his son, Joan Miró has settled into his new job working the overnight shift at a Hasty Market in Toronto. He has plenty of time to think beneath the fluorescent lights of the convenience store: of ghosts and late nights, of downtown living and dying, of customer service and self-preservation, of the beauty of the night sky, and of the attempts people make to connect with one another despite seemingly insurmountable distances. These fragments of life prove as difficult to make sense of as any code — until one night, when an extraordinary series of events suddenly teases a pattern from the dark.
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Cross Yourself
Lana Storey
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Sometime after the incomprehensible death of his son, Joan Miró has settled into his new job working the overnight shift at a Hasty Market in Toronto. He has plenty of time to think beneath the fluorescent lights of the convenience store: of ghosts and late nights, of downtown living and dying, of customer service and self-preservation, of the beauty of the night sky, and of the attempts people make to connect with one another despite seemingly insurmountable distances. These fragments of life prove as difficult to make sense of as any code — until one night, when an extraordinary series of events suddenly teases a pattern from the dark.
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Cross Yourself
Lana Storey
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Praise
for Addresses by Cynthia Flood:
“What a great story! Told in terse, restrained sentences, yet opening to a lush and radiant heart, Addresses captures the anguish of a marriage gone off the rails, and the moments of redemption that arrive from unexpected places. Flood’s use of language is uniquely her own–staccato, clean as a knife, and brilliant. Cynthia Flood has done it again.”
– Shaena Lambert, author of Radiance and The Falling Woman
Praise for Somehow There Was More Here by Danny Goodman:
“Danny Goodman is very special indeed. When you’re ready to scream about the shallow fields sown in contemporary, urban, hipster fiction, along comes Danny, who is himself contemporary, urban, and, thank god, an old soul, one who can actually capture and crystallize the modern experience.”
—Joseph Boyden, author of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel Through Black Spruce
In Our House by the Sea by Kirsty Logan:
“Every time I read something by Kirsty, I think, ‘Damn her, I wish I’d written that.’ She is the kind of writer that you can’t help but read with teeth-crunching envy, broken-hearted admiration, and a realization that your own work is not half as good as you’d hoped it might be. Be forewarned writers and readers: you will never be the same.”
– Shanna Germain, finalist for the 2010 John Preston Short Fiction Award and nominee for the 2008 Pushcart Prize
for Cross Yourself by Lana Storey:
“Cross Yourself is Lana Storey’s gorgeous swirling image constellation, a story about a man becoming unhinged from the universe and finding redemption in a downtown Hasty Market convenience store. A vibrant, beating heart of a short fiction, Cross Yourself is a vortex worth being pulled into.”
— Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of the 2005 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist The Nettle Spinner
for Addresses by Cynthia Flood:
“What a great story! Told in terse, restrained sentences, yet opening to a lush and radiant heart, Addresses captures the anguish of a marriage gone off the rails, and the moments of redemption that arrive from unexpected places. Flood’s use of language is uniquely her own–staccato, clean as a knife, and brilliant. Cynthia Flood has done it again.”
– Shaena Lambert, author of Radiance and The Falling Woman
Praise for Somehow There Was More Here by Danny Goodman:
“Danny Goodman is very special indeed. When you’re ready to scream about the shallow fields sown in contemporary, urban, hipster fiction, along comes Danny, who is himself contemporary, urban, and, thank god, an old soul, one who can actually capture and crystallize the modern experience.”
—Joseph Boyden, author of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel Through Black Spruce
In Our House by the Sea by Kirsty Logan:
“Every time I read something by Kirsty, I think, ‘Damn her, I wish I’d written that.’ She is the kind of writer that you can’t help but read with teeth-crunching envy, broken-hearted admiration, and a realization that your own work is not half as good as you’d hoped it might be. Be forewarned writers and readers: you will never be the same.”
– Shanna Germain, finalist for the 2010 John Preston Short Fiction Award and nominee for the 2008 Pushcart Prize
for Cross Yourself by Lana Storey:
“Cross Yourself is Lana Storey’s gorgeous swirling image constellation, a story about a man becoming unhinged from the universe and finding redemption in a downtown Hasty Market convenience store. A vibrant, beating heart of a short fiction, Cross Yourself is a vortex worth being pulled into.”
— Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of the 2005 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award finalist The Nettle Spinner
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Featuring Addresses by Cynthia Flood, Somehow There Was More Here by Danny Goodman, In Our House by the Sea by Kirsty Logan, and Cross Yourself by Lana Storey. Cover art by the Winter 2011 Cover Image Contest winner Alex Lewandowski.
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