Bodies of Water: Short Stories

Marylee MacDonald

Oct 2026 · Grand Canyon Press

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Bodies of Water collects fourteen stories from a writer who has spent a lifetime paying attention. The settings range from a nursing home in suburban Illinois to a Greek fishing dory in the Ligurian Sea, from the Ore Mountains of East Germany to the banks of False Creek in Vancouver. The characters are equally various: firefighters and phlebotomists, art dealers and wood turners, a Haitian nurse’s aide, a Bosnian refugee, a ventriloquist’s dummy buried in a California garden.

What connects them is water — and what water has always represented in human life: danger and sustenance, memory and forgetting, the boundary between the life you have and the life you might have chosen. Each story places a character at that boundary and watches, without judgment and with great precision, what they do next.

Some jump. Some surface. Some reach for the phone. All of them are unforgettable.

Bodies of Water collects fourteen stories from a writer who has spent a lifetime paying attention. The settings range from a nursing home in suburban Illinois to a Greek fishing dory in the Ligurian Sea, from the Ore Mountains of East Germany to the banks of False Creek in Vancouver. The characte...

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About the author

Marylee MacDonald is the author of Montpelier Tomorrow, Surrender, Body Language, Bonds of Love and Blood, Bodies of Water, and The Big Book of Small Presses and Independent Publishers. Her fiction has won the Barry Hannah Prize, the Jeanne M. Leiby Chapbook Award, the Ron Rash Award, Gold Medal for Narrative Nonfiction from the Independent Publishers of New England, and a Bronze Medal for Nonfiction from the Wishing Shelf Book Awards (UK).

Marylee MacDonald is the author of Montpelier Tomorrow, Surrender, Body Language, Bonds of Love and Blood, Bodies of Water, and The Big Book of Small Presses and Independent Publishers. Her fiction has won the Barry Hannah Prize, the Jeanne M. Leiby Chapbook Award, the Ron Rash Award, Gold Medal ...

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