“Ross’s aversion to neat, easy answers is complemented by a gift for dramatizing evidence to the contrary. This is the source of her subtlety. Many of the stories have open, Chekhovian endings. The comfort of resolution is not nearly as interesting as the surprise and mystery arising from observable ambiguity…Ross’s writing probes and tests assumptions that we often take for granted, and raises questions that will leave the reader musing, long after a story is finished.” -Charles Holdefer, Full Stop
November 22, 2021
Review of SHAPESHIFTING in Full Stop
Michelle Ross
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Michelle Ross is the Pushcart Prize-winning author of four books, most recently Don’t Take This the Wrong Way (EastOver Press), which she co-authored with Kim Magowan. Her fifth book, Squash, is forthcoming from Moon City Press in 2027. Her work has been anthologized in the North Anthology Flash Fiction America; Best Small Fictions 2021 and 2023 (in which it was one of ten spotlighted stories); and Best Microfiction 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2026. She’s an editor at 100 Word Story.
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