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Mel Paisley

Goodreads Author

Born

in Savannah, GA

Website

http://writteninrafters.wix.com/melpaisley

Twitter

melpaisleyart

Genre

Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

Influences

Ray Bradbury, Richard Siken, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Neil ...more

Member Since

December 2015

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/melpaisley

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I'm Mel, an illustrator, activist, and peddler of strange stories working freelance out of Savannah, GA, and have previously been published with PSYCHED!Magazine, The Port City Review, Meerkat Press, and Polychrome Ink, as well as exhibited visual work in seven gallery shows.

In these parts, you will find magical realism, historical fiction, sci-fi, and a general abundance of queerness. You will find fairy tales that seek to open up a dialogue on mental illness that surmounts stereotype and expands imagination. You will find addicts and artists, androids who run hot and Holocaust survivors who can pull a lost boy out of a painting. You will find the monster under your bed and realize that he was your guardian angel after all.

If you have an ...more

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Mel Paisley’s books

Average rating: 4.0 · 46 ratings · 13 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology by Tricia Reeks (Editor), Jeff Vandermeer (Goodreads Author), Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polychrome Ink, Volume III by Tinka Harvard, Eli Tamondong, Lynsey Calderwood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Polychrome Ink (Volume IV) by E.M. Salgado (Editor), C.G. Fewston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Asher Donovan (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mel Paisley (?)

“When she sat down on the tile next to him, unafraid, his kaleidoscope senses drank in the years that had been printed onto her mind before she was old enough to remember, and he told her a story, projecting into her darkness sensations of light and color and shape, butterflies swirling like silk-spun gold out through a window that opened to a big green field in the days before the bomb.”
― Mel Paisley, Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

tags: alien, love-hurts, post-apocalyptic-fiction, science-fiction, short-story-collection, speculative-fiction

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