Celebrating the diversity of Canadian short fiction, 12writers are featured in this volume of the short list and winners of the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Short Fiction Award. The curatedshort-story collection includes writing bycontemporary storytellers Christine Miscione, exploring self-mutilation as the art of living; Leon Rooke andhis maze of contradictory and unresolved questions; and Sean Virgo with a surrealtale of a wintertime house and harpsichords. Also showcased in the anthologyare short fictions by Amy Stuart, Daniel Perry, Darlene Madott, Jacqueline Windh, Kelly Watt, Kris Bertin, Linda Rogers, Martha Batiz, and Phil Della."