Mcclelland & Stewart, Belletristik, The Journey Prize Stories 26 (Englisch, Various, 2014)

For more than twenty-five years, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada&rsquo s most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who&rsquo s who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from Toronto&rsquo s Royal Conservatory of Music to a hospital ward in Thailand, from British Columbia&rsquo s Burrard Inlet to St. John&rsquo s Bowring Park, the stories in this collection represent the year&rsquo s best short fiction by some of our most exciting new writers. Among the stories this year: A woman&rsquo s quest to trend on social media blinds her to her inability to connect with her own adult daughter. The delicate equilibrium maintained by a newly pregnant expat living in Israel is shattered when a missile lands in her backyard. An unusual guide to caring for an exotic pet highlights the many opportunities owners will have to learn valuable life lessons &ndash beginning with the pet&rsquo s death. The tender relationship between two musical prodigies is no match for the machinations of the adult world. After a woman returns to her parents&rsquo house to recuperate from a life-changing surgery, she discovers how difficult it is for others to accept who she has become. A terrible act of cruelty forces the tensions between two workers at a fish processing plant to spill out into the surrounding waters. When a former couple has a chance encounter on a B.C. ferry, old grievances and desires alike resurface with surprising results.