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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76 & Fighting It
What does a storyteller do when his 76th birthday arrives? Well, let’s just say it’s an opportunity he can’t pass up.
Through his own looking glass, it’s just another Thursday… until it isn’t. A fence that’s been leaning for ten years sudd...
She Was Always Here
The House That Still Remembered
In the winter of 1962, there was a house in Port Alberni that looked as though it had been quietly forgotten by the rest of the town.
It sat between Argyle and Athol Streets, where rainwater gathered in the...
Free Stuff, Please Inspect Carefully
When Free Meets Suspicion
In Port Alberni, there are certain things people will help you with immediately, no questions asked. Moving a couch is one of them. You can stand in your driveway looking slightly discouraged beside a couch, and w...
Iron Men, Coal, Wood and Defiance
The Weight of Coal
The mine always sounded alive. That was the first thing Thomas Calder noticed the day he first descended into the coal workings outside Nanaimo. Number 3 mine itself seemed to breathe. Timber supports creaked like old bo...
Fine - The Raccoons Were Fine
The Group
Gord Halkett had lived on Argyle Street for thirty-one years, and in that time, he had watched Port Alberni do some genuinely puzzling things. He had watched it tear down a perfectly good building to put up a parking lot nobody u...
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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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