Last Words: Stories

Hugh Graham captures the passage of years, the progression of accumulation and recurrence, the present as dammed up history. Without warning, a world on the road to epiphany. And that world, threatened with disaster. Figures emerge, often from twilight. Children who do not fear death, travelers doomed to inertia, concupiscent women, bloody-minded intellectuals, haunted drunks, decaying diplomats, and Death as the man in the attic room. In the end, the gaze of a child become a man. Eleven stories of clarity and dark empathy.

Hugh Graham has written for the Toronto Star and the Walrus, and his fiction has appeared in Descant, the Antigonish Review, the Fiddlehead, ELQ/Exile Quarterly and New Quarterly. He has twice been short listed and once won the Carter V. Cooper ＄15,000 Short Fiction Competition, those stories then appearing in CVC1, CVC4, and CVC5. He has published two books, with Exile Editions: Ploughing the Seas, and Where the Sun Don’t Shine.