Internationally celebrated as one of literature's most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her second story collection, a soaring chorus of voices, dreams, loves, and lives. Taking us from the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John's and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have jumped a cruise ship — in the Arctic. A grieving young woman may live next to a serial rapist. A man's last day on Earth replays in the minds of others in a furiously sensual, heartrending fugue. Something for Everyone is Moore at the peak of her prowess — she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself. source
Scene
Long's Hill / New Gower Street (the Kirk)
“They come down Long's Hill and pass Laurie's window and slow down and the girl stands and flicks her cellphone shut and hobbles to the truck. The car squealed all the way back up Long Street, then turned and tore down Long's Hill, on the other side of the traffic island, and was gone around the corner onto New Gower.”
The story's confrontation is precisely placed at Long's Hill and New Gower, downtown St. John's.
Lisa Moore, 'Guard of What,' excerpted in The Globe and Mail (2018) — source
