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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Radial Books Releases Collection of Novellas by Santa Cruz Writer Ryan Masters

SEATTLE WA >> Radial Books is pleased to announce the release of Above an Abyss: Two Novellas, the debut collection of fiction from Monterey Bay writer Ryan Masters. Released in December 2018, Above an Abyss contains contrasting tales of suspense:

Trampoline Games. It’s the summer of 1986 and all is not well among the sharply defined suburbs of Salt Lake City. A 12-year-old boy arrives in a land of “mountains, Mormons, crickets” to find baffling prejudice, but also intoxicating freedom, lust, moments of heaven and, in the end, a terrible violence.

The Moth Orchid. When a hereditary form of early onset dementia begins to ravage a woman’s mind, she embarks on a desperate quest into her past in hopes of finding answers. Set against the noir backdrop of a sub-zero Alaskan winter, “The Moth Orchid” is a gripping tale of one woman’s struggle with the inevitability of oblivion.

“Ryan Masters writes stories that pull the rug out from under you— and leave you gasping for air. I've rarely been so surprised as by stories like these. Brilliant work.” – Susie Bright

“Come to Ryan Masters for the lust and violence of youth, stay for madness, decay and death. Above an Abyss is a Borghesian tour de force.” - Elizabeth Mckenzie

"Whether he takes you to suffocating suburban Reagan-era Utah or snow-buried and ice-fogged Alaska, Ryan Masters deftly conjures a chilling sense of disquiet and dislocation, and leaves you with a haunting afterimage of the cruelty and chaos that lurk just under the surface of what you think is reality." - Wallace Baine

Ryan Masters is a writer and poet from Santa Cruz, CA. He spent a decade on staff at the Santa Cruz Sentinel and The Monterey County Weekly. He is a frequent contributor to The Surfer’s Journal and former poet-in-residence for the City of Pacific Grove, CA. His poetry and fiction work have appeared in publications such as The Iowa Review, Catamaran Literary Reader and Unlikely Stories. He is the author of below the low-water mark.

For more information or to order a review copy of Above an Abyss: Two Novellas, contact Tricia Yost of Radial Books. For interview requests and to see a schedule of upcoming author events, visit https://ryanmasters831.com or call 831-818-3127.

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Click here to watch a minute or two of my 3/23/19 reading from "Trampoline Games" at the Henry Miller Memorial Library.