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They play out in rain-soaked Seattle and drought-stricken California. On a tiny island and in a vast desert filled with light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had.
In these fifteen stories you will meet a boy trying to make it through that summer between the end of high school and the start of something else. A girl so alive you can feel her heartbeat from half a mile away. A woman attracted to a man with muscles, because it makes her feel safe … until it doesn’t. A man who can only imagine what it’s like to sleep with many different women, but that’s OK—he has a good imagination.
In prose that is by turns spare and lyrical, Precarious capture the feeling of late summer. A never-ending game of Kick the Can. All sense of time lost among the stars.
Praise for Precarious ...
“Al Riske ... understands how to walk the tightrope of subtle emotional resonance.”
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward, Love in the Present Tense, andChasing Windmills, among many others.
“Riske's characters brim with the fears, desires, and idiosyncrasies of real, complex human beings.”
— Laura Matter, Blue Mesa Review
“There’s something about Al Riske’s writing … He says so much with just a few words set off in quotation marks that you feel as if each line of dialogue has whole chapters behind it.”
– Douglas Edwards, author of I’m Feeling Lucky
“A hugely talented writer, Al Riske beautifully captures the nuanced behavior of relationships and the universal struggle to understand why we do what we do.”
— Rachel Canon, author of The Anniversary
“His prose is so sharp and the characters sketched so vividly that I was transported right into the world he created.”
— Mark Richardson, author of “Tattoo Woman” and other stories
“The writing is Hemingway lean and it's clear that one of Riske's strongest gifts as a storyteller is his witty dialogue.”
— Gretchen Clark, author of "This Is a Woman" and other essays
“You know you’re in the capable hands of a literary musician.”
— Feathered Quill Book Reviews
“Riske’s eye for detail is sharp, but his hand gentle as he unravels the complexities and quirks of his characters.”
— Bookblah
Praise for Precarious ...
“Al Riske ... understands how to walk the tightrope of subtle emotional resonance.”
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward, Love in the Present Tense, andChasing Windmills, among many others.
“Riske's characters brim with the fears, desires, and idiosyncrasies of real, complex human beings.”
— Laura Matter, Blue Mesa Review
“There’s something about Al Riske’s writing … He says so much with just a few words set off in quotation marks that you feel as if each line of dialogue has whole chapters behind it.”
– Douglas Edwards, author of I’m Feeling Lucky
“A hugely talented writer, Al Riske beautifully captures the nuanced behavior of relationships and the universal struggle to understand why we do what we do.”
— Rachel Canon, author of The Anniversary
“His prose is so sharp and the characters sketched so vividly that I was transported right into the world he created.”
— Mark Richardson, author of “Tattoo Woman” and other stories
“The writing is Hemingway lean and it's clear that one of Riske's strongest gifts as a storyteller is his witty dialogue.”
— Gretchen Clark, author of "This Is a Woman" and other essays
“You know you’re in the capable hands of a literary musician.”
— Feathered Quill Book Reviews
“Riske’s eye for detail is sharp, but his hand gentle as he unravels the complexities and quirks of his characters.”
— Bookblah
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