Bad Things Happen

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Brilliant stories about marginalized characters at the fringes of society, full of violence, heartache, and compassion.The characters in Bad Things Happen-professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals-are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris Bertin's unforgettable debut introduces us to people at the tenuous moment before everything in their lives changes, for better or worse. Kris Bertin's stories have appeared in the Walrus, the Malahat Review, the New Quarterly, PRISM International, and other magazines. He lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia.