Five Small Rooms (a Murder Mystery‪)‬

Two rooms are blue, one is brown, one is green, one is purple with small clocks—but four walls cannot wholly contain a life or a great love. This succession of poetic, architectural descriptions captures the stages and emotions of a life. But was there a murder?

The stories in Red Plaid Shirt span twenty years of Diane Schoemperlen’s challenging and innovative writing. Told in her fresh and often deadpan comedic voice, they offer a compulsively readable mix of deeply felt emotion and finely wrought intellect. This collection was shortlisted for the Upper Canada Brewing Company Writers’ Craft Award.

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