Melinda Brasher

You can read my latest published story free here, at Diabolical Plots: https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-117b-the-lighthouse-kee...

My story won second place in On the Premises' "Expertise" contest. You can read it here: https://onthepremises.com/issues/issue-44/is...

It's been a busy day--two stories appearing within a few hours of each other. See my previous post for details about "Midnight Muster"...

"Midnight Muster" is about a resourceful amateur paleontologist facing possible death at the hands of very polite space pirates. It was...

One of my creepier stories, "A Learned Man," has found a new home on Just Chills Podcast. You can listen  here or find it on Spotify,...

"Bones and Blooms," a rather weird story of mine, appears in Aphotic Realm's Sonoran Horror Anthology. The Sonoran Desert is one of the...

My travel piece, "Postal Culture Shock" is live in the February issue of The Mantelpiece. You can read it here: ...

My story, "Vodník," appears in Flame Tree Publishing's anthology, Shadows on the Water, which publishes today in the UK. It will be...

I had a lot of fun writing this story. It's quite light-hearted, and I was delighted when Zombies Need Brains Presents accepted it. It's...

This is the Short Story Dispenser at Tempe Public Library in Arizona. You just push a button and get a short story, poem, or piece of...

My story about the Czech water gobin

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...

My creative non-fiction piece about the day I played bridge in a park with some slightly drunk Polish retirees has been published in...

The Baltimore Review recently published my non-fiction piece, "The Symbolic Cemetery," about the sometimes-deadly lure of the mountains. ...

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...

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...

Here's a quick review of my sci-fi story, "Foreign Bodies," published in Deep Magic. The article is by Karen Burnham in Locus Magazine,...

Here's a roundup of my fiction and non-fiction published last year: "Salvage Operations" in Leading Edge Issue 13 The leader of an...

I'm happy to say that my poem will appear in issue #16 of 50 Haikus. There's nothing fantasy in those three little lines, but as I...