Hang Time

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Funny bruising and unexpectedly tender Brendan Gillen's new collection </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Hang Time</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)> reveals the fragile humanity beneath the myths of competition and control. Whether laced with surreal twists or grounded in everyday heartbreak these stories-moving from little league dugouts and high school gyms to auto shops and monster truck rallies-remind us that hang time is never just about staying in the air-it's about what it costs to come back down.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>There are too many stories out there about writers and college professors. Bring on the athletes the down-and-out family men the working class folks doing their best to get by. Gillen's prose focuses on the grittier parts of these characters' lives but there's poetry in here along with the heartbreak. You'll find hope too of last-second buzzer beaters happier marriages recovering deadbeat dads and a taste of the glory only hard-fought competition can bestow.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>-Eric Rasmussen Fiction Editor </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>Sundog Lit</em></p><p></p>