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by Melinda Brasher

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Yucatan Flower--Photo by Melinda Brasher
All photos (excluding book covers) are my original work, unless otherwise specified. Please ask for permission before using. Thank you.

My Books

  • Far-Knowing--a YA fantasy novel
  • Chaos Rises--A short story in the Far-Knowing world
  • Leaving Home--A collection of flash fiction, short stories, and travel essays
  • Cruising Alaska on a Budget: A Cruise and Port Guide
  • Hiking Alaska From Cruise Ports: Hikes, Walks, and Strolls

My Creative Writing Online

  • "Silence"--in The Dread Machine, January 2022
  • "To My Students"--Short Circuit #4, Dec 2020
  • "The People Upstairs"--Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, Nov 2019
  • Mini Contest Winner--On the Premises, Nov 2019
  • "Foreign Bodies"--Deep Magic Spring 2019
  • "A Learned Man"--Pseudopod, July 2018
  • "Foolish Promises"--in Timeless Tales
  • "Dusk"--micro fiction--only 38 words
  • "Stalked"--a sci fi story in On the Premises
  • "Foreign Bodies"--in Intergalactic Medicine Show
  • "Ethereal"--a Cinderella tale on Fairy Tale Magazine
  • "Passcodes"--in The Future Fire
  • "Chaos Rises"--in 9tales: Tales From Elsewhere
  • "A Learned Man"--in Electric Spec

My Creative Writing in Print

  • "Stashed Away" in The Martian Wave--Sept 2020
  • "Gold," in 50 Haikus Issue #16--Fall 2020
  • "Radish Hunting" in Animal Uprising
  • "The Hot Dog Stand" reprinted in THEMA Vol 31 No 2
  • "Salvage Operations" in Leading Edge Issue 73, January 2019
  • "The Curse" in Ember; a Journal of Luminous Things, Volume 3 Issue 1, July 2018
  • "The Twenty Percent Club" in Double Feature Magazine, Issue 3, Dec 2016
  • "The Hot Dog Stand" in Nous, Issue 7, Summer 2016
  • "Sand and Fire." Spark Anthology Volume IV. Jan/Feb 2014
  • "The Bus to Lublin." Ellipsis Literature and Art, Volume 48-2012
  • "On the Train to Warsaw," THEMA Literary Journal, Summer 2011

Collections where my stories appear

Collections where my stories appear

My Creative Writing in Audio

  • "A Learned Man" on Pseudopod
  • "Foolish Promises" in Timeless Tales

My Travel Articles

  • Bidding Four Spades in Poland--Republished in Wizards in Space Issue 07
  • The Symbolic Cemetery--in the Baltimore Review
  • Night Watchman--in Hippocampus Magazine
  • The Scary Path in the Czech Republic--on In the Known Traveler
  • Hunting Mushrooms in Wallachia--Reprinted by the Epoch Times
  • Hunting Mushrooms in Wallachia--Go Nomad
  • Tikal Sunrise--The Expeditioner
  • Gold Rush Fever and Tales of Soapy Smith in Skagway, Alaska -- Go Nomad
  • Tramping in the Czech Republic--In the Know Traveler
  • Czech Sauerkraut Soup--Travel Belles
  • Bidding Four Spades in Poland--Travel Belles
  • Kroměříž, Czech Republic: Formal Gardens go Wild--Gonomad.com
  • Traditional Dance in Vsetin - In the Know Traveler
  • Kuks, Czech Republic: Eerie Remains of Past Glory -- Gonomad.com
  • Wallachian Rocks: Off the Beaten Track on the Czech-Slovak Border -- Gonomad.com

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I am first and foremost a writer. My true love is fiction, but I also write articles and personal essays, mostly based on my number two passion: travel. In order to support my travel habits, I have taught English as a Second Language in places like Mexico, Poland, the Czech Republic, and exotic Arizona.
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