Camille Gooderham Campbell recommends a selection of stories from EDF’s archives.
First of all, I’m beyond pleased to be able to report that we’ve accepted a handful of new stories thus far for your April reading pleasure; an April editorial with details and new information will be posted Monday (April 5th) because it just seems wrong to start our new phase of publication on April Fools’ Day tomorrow.
While we’ve been working on EDF’s new submission system, I’ve also been looking back through our archives for some stories to share with you.
For this round of recommendations, I’m going back to our first four years of publication for some old favourites. Perhaps another time I’ll add to this list with selections from our later years, but for the moment I’ve just considered stories we published from September 1, 2007 to August 30, 2011.
I truly struggled to choose only ten stories from each year, and to limit myself to one per author — so remember that you can click on the author tag at the bottom of each story to see what else is in our archives. These are listed in the order in which they were published.
They are my personal selections. These stories spoke to me, and still do, strongly enough to be remembered half a decade or more later. I hope you enjoy them too.
From our first year:
- “Lolita’s Lynch Mob” by Sarah Hilary (surreal)
- “Conscious Decision” by Oonah V Joslin (literary)
- “Tell’s Choice” by Steve Goble (historical)
- “Silver Shells” by Michael D. Turner (horror)
- “Without Napier” by Michael Ehart (mystery/suspense)
- “Yardie Girl” by Celeste Goschen (literary)
- “The Sniper’s Son” by Jill Barth (romance)
- “The Hero and the Horror” by Kevin Shamel (fantasy)
- “Box of Balloons” by Robin Vandenberg Herrnfeld (inspirational)
- “Hair of the Dog” by K.C. Ball (humour/satire)
From our second year:
- “Becoming Cottontail” by Deven D Atkinson (literary)
- “Pies of God” by Sarah Black (inspirational)
- “Coffee or Tea” by Sylvia Spruck-Wrigley (literary)
- “Death is a Weird Shade of Pink” by M.Sherlock (humour/satire, surreal)
- “Cheese” by Angel Zapata (horror)
- “Home to Perfect” by Erica Naone (literary)
- “Orcs and Trolls” by K.C. Shaw (fantasy)
- “Modern Love” by Elizabeth M. Thurmond (romance)
- “Frigid” by Erin M. Kinch (fantasy)
- “Growing Pains” by Rob Ganley (literary)
From our third year:
- “Hidden Shallows” by Jonathan Pinnock (humour/satire)
- “A Friggin’ Star” by Joel Willans (literary)
- “Grown from Man to Dragon” by Megan Arkenberg (fantasy)
- “Beauty Sleeping” by C.L. Holland (fantasy)
- “Your Own Personal Genie” by Grá Linnaea (fantasy)
- “Tears of the Android” by JR Hume (science fiction)
- “The Destiny of Archer Deft” by Douglas Campbell (humour/satire, fantasy)
- “Patrick’s Day” by J.C. Towler (literary)
- “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” by Tanya Byrne (literary)
- “Tehuelche” by Gustavo Bondoni (literary)
And from our fourth year:
- “Ophidiophobia” by Deborah Winter-Blood (literary)
- “Love Affair” by Cat Rambo (surreal)
- “To the Sticking Place” by Katie Cotugno (literary)
- “Space Invader” by Sandra Crook (literary)
- “Vatican Direct” by Patrick S. Tomlinson (humour/satire)
- “Fire in the Heart” by Samantha Memi (literary)
- “Breakfast for Two” by Rumjhum Biswas (literary)
- “The Most Epicly Awesomest Story! Ever!!” by Randy Henderson (humour/satire)
- “Oranges” by Gay Degani (literary)
- “Flowers for Clockwork Street” by Jennifer R. Fierro (fantasy)
