Nonfiction, Memoir, Fabulist Fiction & Poetry
Posted on April 3, 2020 by Author Melissa Crandall
I shift closer to the fire, toss on a log, make the sparks fly. It’s my night to sit up with the children that can’t sleep and I’m damned if I’ll do it cold. I look around the circle at their pale faces made… Continue Reading “I don’t want to write about the pandemic, so you get this instead.”
Category: Childhood, Children, Kids, Reading, Short Stories, WritingTags: Childhood, Short Stories, Writing
Posted on April 15, 2019 by Author Melissa Crandall
Remember some time back when I mentioned how much I love editing? Yeah, that time. If I ever say it again, remind me that I need to keep my trap closed and not taunt the Powers That Be. I’m only partly serious. I still… Continue Reading “Me & My Big Mouth”
Posted on February 18, 2019 by Author Melissa Crandall
What’s gone before: Cora Coleman resides in a New EnglandĀ village with her family — six-year-old daughter, Rebecca, and husband, Brendan, away to sea aboard a whaling ship. Cora is a good wife — loyal, true — and a goodwife, trained in the use… Continue Reading “Story Snippet from “Thicker Than Water””
Category: Books & Boos Press, Horror, Short Stories, Three on a Match, Witchcraft, WritingTags: Books & Boos Press, Horror, Short Stories, Three on a Match, Witchcraft, Writing