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Rising and Other Stories by Gale Massey; Bronzeville Books (142 pages, $28)
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In Gale Masseyâs new short story collection, characters are balanced on the edge: on the rim of the Grand Canyon, on a diving board above a pool full of danger, on the verge of escaping a loveless home, on the shore of an ocean they might walk into or the lip of a bottle of pills they might take too many of.
How they get to that edge and what they do about it propel Rising and Other Stories. This is the first story collection from St. Petersburg, Florida writer Massey, following her impressive 2018 debut novel, The Girl From Blind River, which won a Florida Book Award. Sheâs a Writers in Paradise alum and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction.
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Tampa Bay Noir. Gale was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a fellow at Writers in Paradise and has served as a panel judge for the Lambda Literary Awards. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in both fiction and nonfiction. You can visit Gale online galemassey.com.