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Dantiel Moniz’s ‘Milk Blood Heat’ tells moving stories of human need Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Grove Atlantic/TNS Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz; Grove Press. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz; Grove Press (208 pages, $25) Milk Blood Heat, the stunning debut short story collection by Dantiel W. Moniz, is populated by characters, most of them women or girls, standing on the cusp of change or sometimes on its cliff edge. As its title suggests, this book’s 11 stories are about human need, about intimacy physical and otherwise, and about what happens when it fails. Moniz, a Florida native who lives in Jacksonville, sets many of the stories in that sprawling city, where sometimes, she writes, “even the sidewalk seemed to sweat.” Like fellow Florida writer Lauren Groff, Moniz writes about the darker corners of the Sunshine State, a place where, in one story, water in a decorative pool at an apartment complex is “dyed . a

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