Ron Merk - Stories From Canada's Far West
Ron Merk“Stories of Small-Town Secrets, Strange Memories, and the People We Almost Forget” — Darkly Funny, Deeply Human: Short Stories from Canada’s Wild West Coast — Fiction & Memory from Canada’s Far West — sometimes tragic, sometimes absurd, always human.
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The Bumper Sticker Years
Some ideas travel well. Some don’t. Bubba Kowalski imported one from south of the border, stuck it on his tailgate, and spent the next several years watching his family quietly pack up and leave. This is his story. It’s funny right up until...
Copper Dreams and Swamp Realities
Derek Fallow drove north from Victoria with a metal detector, a brand new pair of orange hiking boots, and a plan to flip his late uncle's copper mine to American wilderness tourists. What he found at the end of the Alberni Inlet was a swam...
The Lettuce Is Not Your Friend
Every Tuesday morning, Earl Cummings shows up at a local grocery store, picks up a head of romaine, and tells Port Alberni what’s coming. He’s been right about gas prices, highway closures, hard winters, and shortages that hadn’t happened y...
Vancouver Man, Crows and Smoked Fish
Douglas Pemberton arrived in Port Alberni with charts and colour-coded cards, ready to solve a logging dispute. Two locals already knew the ending and were politely waiting for him to run out of diagrams. They were telling him everything he...
A Perfectly Good Morning Ruined by Honesty
I only meant to sip my coffee and mind my business. Then I said one word… and the whole table went quiet. This is what happens when folks find out who you really are… and what that truth reveals about what we think matters.
PART ONE: The C...
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I’m Ron Merk, a short story writer on Vancouver Island. My series, Stories From Canada’s Far West, blends humour and heartbreak from small-town life—the kind of tales that make you laugh, then sit quietly for a while. [email protected]
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