31 Days of Stories, Day 4: “The Mummers Parade” by Bridget Canning
The shifting ground of motivation and relationship between the two characters is brought out metaphorically in the mummers' costumes.
In her first collection of short stories, Newfoundland’s Bridget Canning performs acts of radical empathy
Canning's fiction is as intriguing for what it leaves out as for what gets included.