Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For
Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For
Dawn Macdonald
, Marilyn Stanley
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Barry Kazimer
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, LJ Law
, Sarah Schwartz
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Emily Bickell
, Noelle Walsh
, Anita Merritt
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Jude Castillo
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Deana Bueley
, Leslie Vermeer
, Joshua Lewis
, Shayla Bradley
, Melissa Kohlman
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Vanessa S
, Linda Leitch
, Andrea Gillespie
, Debra Fisher
, P. Thompson
, Patricia Johnson
, Carol Parchewsky
, finn mulryan
, Laurie Burns
, Clare Lui
, C. Ray
, Heather Belliveau
, joy mills
, Karen Kendrick
, Tiffany C
, Filomena Falocco
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Prabh Toor
, Lynn Hallson
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Katherine Krige
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Christopher Evans
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Ellen Clarke
, Paula Ritchie
, Adele gallogly
, PETER TASSIOPOULOS
, Kevin Smith
, catherine dorton
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Katherine Koller
, Nancy Daoust
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Charles Leblanc
, sarah campbell
, Margaret Jones
, BJ Underwood
, Susan Terendy
, Mary Lester
, Chloe Moore
, Susan Jang
, jane luce
, Jaclyn Law
, Benita Hartwell
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Denise Duvall
, Robert Hykawy
, Deb Philippon
, Maria Mclean
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Karen Nordrum
, Ken Gilmour
, Janice Cournoyer
, Sharon Bird
, Alex Henderson
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Hoda Montazeri
, Yolande Thivierge
, Chris Carvalho
, Melissa Poremba
, Kelsey Attard
, Laura Peters
, Randi Ann Doll
, Kim Cappellina
, Heather O'Connor
, Pearl Pirie
, Jennifer Beyak
, Albina Beresnyeva
editor@49thShelf.com
Award-winning author Leslie Greentree presents fourteen short stories in this dark, often funny, deeply compelling collection that asks how we locate, create, and avoid meaning in our lives. These are stories about people and relationships challenged by death and redeemed by art. Satirical, political, personal, and tender, they take us to funerals, protests, art galleries, to the dark side of the service industry, and through cities on fire.
An actress turns her terminal cancer diagnosis into an art installation; a boy’s attempt at a practical joke derails his grandfather’s funeral; a mother discovers she may care more for her sick dog than her newborn son; a man watches his dream of becoming a #hero burn with the city around him; a teacher befriends a gargoyle; a coalition of women fighting for bodily autonomy turn to the ultimate shock-performance protest.
Taking on the social collective, the performance of death, the political battleground, and the search for existential happiness with fearlessness and verve, Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For is full of sharp observation, irreverence, wit, and compassion.
