13 Cautionary Tales

Product Description Thirteen stories; five cities; twelve girls; one boy. Jules, a reclusive photographer in Prague discovers an unlikely source of love. Trina, a politician's Champagne girl, embraces Machiavelli and cherry red stilettos. Clive, an unemployed U of T graduate, records his peccadilloes for an older mistress. Review McGill is no poseur. She understands what makes her contemporary characters tick… The 13 raw, visceral stories in (her) first collection will not help you sleep at night. What they will do is prove that the ugliness and brutality you witness every day make for good fiction. (Emily Pohl-Weary, NOW Magazine) McGill…is a shrewd observer of modern mores and the nature of relationships between friends, family and lovers. She creates haunting portraits of the underlying struggles inherent in human bonding, the need for love tempered by the need for control. (René Bruemmer, Ottawa Citizen) A baker's dozen of urban sketches written in an arresting, caffeinated voice. Set in a host of urban locales. . .these stories are like stream-of-consciousness journal entries from the cultural front. -- Peter Schneider, Ottawa X Press From the Publisher Lurking under the surface of everyday life are powerful emotions: lust and greed, envy and fear, hate and resentment. Haunting, harrowing and provocative, Nichole McGill's first collection of short stories explores the reasons why we do what we know is wrong, how we are ruled by the darkness within us, and the ways in which we are inevitably alone with our secret desires and our innermost fears. About the Author Toronto-born Nichole McGill has written for any and all mediums. As a print journalist she has written about sex, edited alternative weeklies, and covered Ottawa's soft underbelly for the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa City Magazine. Her pop culture articles have also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Prague Post and dailies across Canada.13 Cautionary Tales is her first collection of short stories.