Fresh New Shorts Podcast

In The Passage, a photographer reflects on how he got his start at 15 with a heart-breaking photo he didn’t expect from the girl he loved but could never have. It takes place at the beginning of the 1950s in St. John’s, shortly after Confederation, when Protestants and Catholics were separate tribes. "This story stuck with me for days after reading it," said the Writers’ Union Final Jury.

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This episode’s short story, Tender Fruit, resonates today as people make difficult decisions about their small businesses and passions that they’ve pursued.

Tender Fruit is by Deepam Susan Wadds. Tender Fruit won The Writers’ Union of Canada short story competition for 2016.

The Writers’ Union jury said, “There's gorgeous writing here, especially the human imagery to describe the peach trees that Ditch and Allie must destroy.”

Learn more about Deepam Wadds and her writing at writeyourwayin.ca.

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Tune in this week for a different form of short story. Colleagues and friends remember Jack Jefferson, the Dean of Game Show Hosts. Game shows are America’s story, more than any other medium or genre, one of Jack’s writers contends. Anyone can be a winner…or president. Follow Jack’s successes, disastrous Chinese game show, and redemption through a Plasticine panda.

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In The Tornado Lovers, a woman credits learning French for saving her life. Her pilgrimage to France is interrupted by a natural phenomena and a pair of young lovers with risky appetites.

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This week’s story features a physicist navigating love and lakes in Northern Ontario.

As he returns home from working at the Very Large Array, he reflects on the events that brought him his first telescope, the girl he loved, and her enigmatic father.

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This week’s story follows a family with high expectations for a special vacation, old guidebooks, and more baggage than what they checked for the flight. The White Gorilla was shortlisted for The Writers’ Union of Canada national short story competition.

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This week’s episode features the short story that won The Writers’ Union of Canada short fiction Competition. It’s also one of the collection’s three stories set in Newfoundland. Like I Was Fire is about a young firefighter, his demanding mentor, and the lengths he goes to earn his love.

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In this short story, an imaginative girl’s legends of how the world began causes her school to question if there is a problem at home. There may be, but it’s not what the school may think.

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How do people react when a spreading, worldwide catastrophe causes people to lose gravity and fall up and off the earth? 

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In this short story, a physicist navigates marriage with a woman who thinks differently than him. A family holiday weekend explodes with the unlikely catalyst of a mis-translated Welsh word. 

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