FPQ 7

by Chad Pelley

In Chad Pelley's 'Trigger Finger Blues', a sniper experiences a crisis of conscience when he falls in love with his next target - but are any of his feelings real? In 'The Snake Crosses the Tracks at Midnight' by Daniel Karasik, a teenager must deal with the fact that his older sister is now a grown woman, and his crush-next-door has become a mystery, with depths beyond his comprehension. An accompanist must put up with a headstrong, condescending, and unprofessional singer, who also happens to be on the brink of genius, in Kayt Burgess's 'The Soprano'. An electrical engineer who has lost almost everything – his marriage, his job, his father – retreats to his garage to re-evaluate and reorganize the various loose ends of his life, and ends up assembling a thermonuclear device instead, in Andrew Forbes's 'Fat Albert'.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 21, 2013

About the author

Chad Pelley’s fiction has been recognized by a dozen literary awards.

His debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a Coles bestseller, and was adapted into a film starring Jason Priestley, Joanne Kelly, and Shawn Doyle. Away from Everywhere was also shortlisted for the ReLit Award, the Canadian Author’s Association’s Emerging Author Award, and it won the CBC NLAC Emerging Artist Award. His second novel, Every Little Thing, was also shortlisted for the ReLit award.

His collection of short stories, Four Letter Words, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Forward INDIES book of the year.

He is currently working on a novel about a society opposed to what's been imposed on them, set 30 years in the future