Dani Magsumbol

  • Reflections on the Short Story

    I vividly remember my first encounter with the short story form: Stephen King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes, a copy of which I found laying around the house when I was in my early teens. I remember thinking it was odd that it was just there, because I was raised in a deeply Pentecostal household and my

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  • Fearnoch

    Fearnoch by Jim McEwen. I am always in search of Canlit. When I go into bookstores or when I browse for books online, one thing I do is always search for Canadian literature. One of my journeys down these rabbit holes led me to @breakwaterbooks and Jim McEwen’s Fearnoch, and oh what a gorgeous journey this book

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  • No Great Mischief

    “All of us are better when we’re loved.”

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  • Fifteen Dogs

    “The pack had grown very peculiar indeed: an imitation of an imitation of dogs. All that had formerly been natural was now strange. All had been turned to ritual.” 

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  • The Salt Grows Heavy

    “My prince allowed me nothing sharp, nothing dangerous, nothing that could be used to cut or maim. Not even my teeth, which he wears on his crown like a warning.”

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  • Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

    The depictions of the darkness and unknowability of the deep forest, as well as the spirits that inhabit it, spoke to my love of rural eldritch horror.

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  • Reuniting With Strangers: A Novel

    As a daughter who experienced echoes of some of the things reflected in the book, I am in awe at how Jennilee wrote us into these pages with such gentleness & truth. What a tender exploration of what it means to be Filipino-Canadian. What gorgeous stories about us, by us. 

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