The Imaginary Girlfriends of Canada, A Collection of Short Fictions

In The Imaginary Girlfriends of Canada, I explore the nature of invisibility – persons unremembered or unknown, events assumed (incorrectly) to have happened, devices and constructions accepted though nonexistent, places and buildings predicted that remain forever theoretical. In “Police Procedural,” for example, two detectives arrive at the scene of a murder, only to find that no one has been murdered. Desperately the two investigators attempt to assemble a case, only to find their self-consciously constructed reality crumbling around them. Absence is also central to “A Sky Party,” where two characters (Guy and Girl) construct a past and a future for themselves, but without a present their paths never quite coincide, leaving them to dream about the way things (never) were and the way things might (unlikely) be someday.