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      <image:title>About - Paul Cresey</image:title>
      <image:caption>is a fiction writer based in Victoria, BC. Exit Strategies, a collection of short stories, was published by Freehand Books in May 2023. He has also been published in Grain, Qwerty, The Dalhousie Review, The New Orphic Review, Burning Water, and online at prairiejournal.org. He was the recipient of a Canadian Council for the Arts Grant for New/Emerging Writer in 2020. At one time a touring singer-songwriter, he was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for Young Performer of the Year in 2008.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A prisoner falls in love with his cellmate’s fiancée and breaks out to confess his feelings. A woman journeys from Honduras to the United States in the hope of a better life. Convenience store owners attempt to free themselves from financial burden by withholding evidence to a murder. The characters in Exit Strategies are all in need of a way out, a way forward, a way through. In this daring and inventive debut, Paul Cresey weaves narratives that are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always utterly captivating. Exit Strategies is about the ways we leave and the reasons we choose what to leave behind.</image:caption>
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