Multiverse Melissa
From "A Body in Motion"
Flash Nonfiction
Reference Call
I step out of my office into the dirty-white hallway beneath the coffin lid of fluorescent lights to take the call.
Hold On
I'm always a minute too late to the punchline, the food is always cold when he gets to the table, his height changes the minute I etch it into the persimmon tree.
How To Break Up With A Toxic Loved One: a handy guide to being civilized instead of honest
I’m growing as a person, learning a lot about myself and how my past experiences have impacted me. I’m reevaluating what’s worked for me and what hasn’t.
Rural Town Wellness Check
You stare at him. One beat passes. Two. This cannot be happening.
Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty?
On Facebook people are even angrier and it’s more real, because if you’re on Facebook in 2022 you don’t care what people think of you.
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
I wanted once before to honk my horn against the swastika that he’d drawn on the poster board he got from the Dollar General, but I had the horn’s fuse pulled as a wild experiment in radical pacifism.