melindabrasher
My story, "VodnÃk," published in Uncharted Magazine
My story about the Czech water gobin
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melindabrasher
- Jan 3
- 1 min
My 2022 Reading List Highlights
Like many of you, I do the Goodreads yearly book challenge. My goal was to read 50 books and I managed to read 52. Of course, half of...
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melindabrasher
- May 30, 2022
- 1 min
My Story, "Silence," on The Dread Machine
Here's a link to "Silence," one of my short stories, published by The Dread Machine earlier this year. You need a subscription to read...
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melindabrasher
- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
"Bidding Four Spades in Poland"--my story in Wizards in Space
My creative non-fiction piece about the day I played bridge in a park with some slightly drunk Polish retirees has been published in...
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melindabrasher
- Jan 7, 2022
- 2 min
Highlights of my 2021 Reading List
Here are the best books I read in 2021 based purely on my enjoyment: 1) Look Big; and other tips for surviving animal encounters of all...
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melindabrasher
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
The Symbolic Cemetery
The Baltimore Review recently published my non-fiction piece, "The Symbolic Cemetery," about the sometimes-deadly lure of the mountains. ...
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melindabrasher
- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
Winterkeep, by Kristin Cashore
Cashore's Graceling is one of my favorite fantasy books ever. Winterkeep is the fourth in the series, with a very different feel, and...
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melindabrasher
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
Highlights of my 2020 Reading List
Here are the best books I read in 2020, based purely on my enjoyment: 1) Extraordinary Birds, by Sandy Stark McGinnis—A beautiful middle...
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melindabrasher
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Favorite Fantasy from College and Beyond
Okay, yes, I'm dating myself here. One summer between university semesters, I worked at a day camp for kids. We had board games. We had...
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melindabrasher
- Feb 4, 2021
- 1 min
Favorite Books from my Youth
Here are some of the books I remember liking most from my high school years. You'll notice a high proportion of fantasy, science fiction,...
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melindabrasher
- Jan 14, 2021
- 1 min
"To My Students"--my poem in Short Circuit
Here's a poem of mine, published in Short Circuit Magazine. It's an ode to my past ESL and GED students: https://short-edition.com/en/st...
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melindabrasher
- Dec 27, 2020
- 1 min
1000 Books you Might Have Read
This is an interesting list of the 1000 books with the most reviews on Goodreads. It's a mix of classics and popular literature, with...
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melindabrasher
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Favorites from my Childhood: Historical Fiction
I love historical fiction, and to me it shares a lot of similarities to fantasy and science fiction in that the characters inhabit a...
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melindabrasher
- Sep 22, 2020
- 1 min
Favorites from my Childhood: Fantasy and Science Fiction
I was thinking back on some of my favorite fantasy and science fiction novels of my childhood. I haven't re-read these lately (except...
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melindabrasher
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
Fantasy inspiration from planet Earth
This isn't a fantasy novel. It's non-fiction. But some of the facts are so bizarre and fantastical that I drew inspiration from it. The...
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melindabrasher
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
The Importance of Correct Punctuation--August 2020
As a writer, I guess I'm more of a language nerd than some, and I love these sorts of things:
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melindabrasher
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Frostblood, by Elly Blake
I read part of this as an e-book and listened to the rest as an audiobook, and I thought the reader, Jennifer English, was really good....
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melindabrasher
- Jul 25, 2020
- 1 min
My Lady Jane, by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows.
I enjoyed this. It's a strange style, with lots of "dear reader"-type sections where the narrators address the reader directly. It quite...
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melindabrasher
- Jul 18, 2020
- 1 min
Interesting Fantasy Cover Comparison
I've read both of these books recently, but only after finishing the second did I realize how similar their covers are. And...the plots...
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melindabrasher
- Jul 3, 2020
- 2 min
Highlights of my 2019 Reading List
Here are the best books I read in 2019, based purely on my enjoyment 1) The Other Side of Lost, by Jessi Kirby, a YA novel about a girl...
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