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Short Stories

Science fiction stories that all take place on the same ill-fated space colony:

"Stashed Away" in Martian Wave 

"Foreign Bodies"  in Deep Magic and InterGalactic Medicine Show

"Radish Hunting" in Animal Uprising

"Salvage Operations" in Leading Edge

"Stalked" in On the Premises  (free online)

"The Twenty Percent Club" in Double Feature Magazine

"Sand and Fire" in Spark Anthology

"Passcodes" in The Future Fire (free online)

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Other speculative fiction:

"A Learned Man" in audio (for the second time) at Just Chills (free online)

"Bones and Blooms" in Sonoran Horror

"Palatable Potions" in Zombies Need Brains Presents

"Vodník"  reprinted in Flame Tree's Shadows on the Water anthology

"Vodník" in Uncharted

"Silence" in The Dread Machine (free online)

"The People Upstairs" in Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight  

"A Learned Man" in audio at Pseudopod  (free online)

"Foolish Promise" atTimeless Tales (free online)

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Mainstream short stories:

"The Hot Dog Stand" in Nous and THEMA

"The Curse" in Ember

"The Bus to Lublin" in Ellipsis Literature and Art (Volume 48)

"On the Train to Warsaw" in THEMA

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Poetry:

"To My Students," in Short Circuit

"Gold," in 50 Haikus (Issue 16--Fall 2020)

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Selected Creative Non-Fiction:

"Postal Culture Shock" in The Mantelpiece (February 2024 issue--free online)

"Bidding Four Spades in Poland" in Wizards in Space

"The Symbolic Cemetery" in The Baltimore Review (free online)

"Night Watchman" in Hippocampus Magazine (free online)

"Hunting Mushrooms in the Czech Republic" in GoNomad (free online)

"Tikal Sunrise" in The Expeditioner

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© 2020 by Melinda Brasher

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