SELECTED SHORT STORIES
“Flat Shoals”
storySouth Issue 53, Spring 2022
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“Sherry and Therapy”
STORY Magazine Issue 6, Autumn 2019
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“The Carnation Milk Palace”
Ecotone: 10th Anniversary Issue
Spring 2015
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Reprinted in Hingston and Olsen’s 2019 Short Advent Calendar, other authors include Lauren Groff, Anthony Doerr, Omar Al Akkad, Rachel Kushner, Stuart Dybek
2017 Pushcart Prize Winner, Pushcart Prize XLI, November
The Quivering Pen “Best Short Stories of 2015”
“‘The Carnation Milk Palace’ has stories within stories. It’s so textured you feel like you’ve touched a dozen lives.”
-Patton Oswalt
“The Odditorium”
Fanzine
November 2009
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Melissa appeared in a documentary on American Experience, PBS’s history series, “Ripley: Believe It or Not!” on the life of Robert LeRoy Ripley.