'Scandal at the Alphorn Factory' couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Gary Barwins previous collections. Barwins prose kicks against short fictions more traditional forms: these are pieces that flirt with poetry and playwriting. Whole stories - and worlds - are packed into single compact paragraphs. There are narrators and fleas and lists and imperatives and Hitlers moustache and radiant happiness. Barwin lives in Hamilton, ON.