In this collaborative fiction project, four writers navigate the protean concept of the “bargain” in novella-length stories. A biographer surveying the career of a “haunted” literary figure, a lovelorn journalist entering into a diabolic covenant, a tourist attempting to stay sober through her holiday travels, and a doctor’s complicity in a colonial scandal: These horror-inflected offerings of existential dread, tainted pasts, and uncertain futures serve as an unbalancing reminder that there is always a high price to pay for the corruption of the soul.
Read my other short stories:
“Who Are You Close To?” Hazlitt
“Friends and Family”- Maisonneuve
“Forest Hill Gothic- The Walrus
“Patrons”- Issues in Science and Technology
“Fracture”- EVENT
“The Ugly Sisters”- Joyland
“Occasion”- Maisonneuve
“Artifact”- Jenny
“Stave“- CALYX
“Ghost Balcony”- The Malahat Review
“Bigger and Gentler”- carte blanche
“Victory Day“- PRISM International
Cassidy McFadzean 