Bad Things Happen

The characters in Bad Things Happenprofessors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminalsare 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 change, for better or worse.

Kris Bertin’s stories have appeared in the Walrus, the Malahat Review, theNew Quarterly, PRISM International, and other magazines. He lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia.