Ashleigh Bell Pedersen's fiction has been featured in New Stories from the South, the Kenyon Review, the Iowa Review, Design Observer, The Silent History, and elsewhere. Her story 'Small and Heavy World' was a finalist for the Pushcart Prize, and her story 'Crocodile' won The Masters Review 2020 Flash Fiction Contest.
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Set during the swampy summer in 1982, this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father, Billy, as the secrets of their family's past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip, Louisiana. During a h... SEE MORE