What I Want to Tell Goes Like This is an intensely original first short story collection from acclaimed poet Matt Rader. The last story All This Was a Long Time Ago is the 2014 winner of the Jack Hodgins Founders Award for fiction from The Malahat Review and other offerings from the collection have appeared in Event The New Quarterly Grain Joyland Forget Magazine and the Rusty Toque.Raders command of tension is masterful in these dark offkilter stories that are largely set in the context of the workinglabour class in and around the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island BC. They alternate between exploring the history of severe labour struggles in the area over a century ago and the presentday experiences of people sliding through transitional ambiguous moments in their relationships and sexuality.