The book has two sections of nine stories each. Strange Love offers twists that challenge not only love affairs, but also narrative expectations. When love plays a deadly game with reality, the next move is dangerous. Yet without love's sly magic, what moves are left?
Romance Not For Sale presents stories about love that never quite lives up to the romantic promise our culture leads us to expect. These stories resolve instead with a philosophic perspective, a touch of irony, a way to carry on.
Since 1976 Nowick Gray’s short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in a wide variety of periodicals and anthologies, in print and online. Many of the stories in this collection were inspired by his experiences as a teacher in the Quebec Arctic in the 1970s, and by his subsequent two decades on a “back to the land” homestead in interior British Columbia. Currently Nowick is based on Salt Spring Island, BC.