Arlene Somerton Smith is a television and video producer turned freelance writer who specializes in video scripts, speeches, and web content. She also writes short stories, and her work has been published in Descant and a Writer’s Digest compilation. When she isn’t writing, she can be found in her other happy place — her part-time job at the Ottawa Public Library. To her knowledge, no one in her family has ever tried to kill her.
Book(s)
Books
Blood Is Thicker
“It was February 29 again, and I was wondering which member of my family would try to kill me this time.” From this intriguing premise, the stories in this collection of short fiction by new Canadian writers map out fifteen wildly different approaches to the same terrain.