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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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    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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