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Taut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.A teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame in the icy waters of a subarctic lake. A pregnant high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition (“No foul or off-putti...

On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of the Canadian Badlands Passion Play. By the time closing night is over, he has a story to tell. From controversial casting choices to the bizarre life of rehearsal, Kemick's glorious behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada's strangest theatrical spectacles confronts the role of religion in contemporary life and the void left by its absence for non-believers.

At one moment, a pure abstraction, at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured debut by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic. Following the caribou through their annual cycle of migration, Kemick orchestrates a suite of poems both encyclopedic and lyrical, in which the caribou is both metaphor and phenomenon, both text and exegesis. He explores wha...