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Melissa R. Mendelson

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Melissa R. Mendelson has been writing short stories and poetry since high school. Her focus has been primarily horror and dystopian, but she also makes room for science-fiction. She has a particular interest in identity, who we really are especially in the face of high stakes, unspeakable evils. With events in 2019/2020 when she was faced with a crisis of fertility and motherhood along with the pandemic, she created a prose poetry collection, This Will Remain With Us and a short story collection, Stories Written On Covid Walls, which were both published by Wild Ink Publishing.

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	This Will Remain With Us 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 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
	Better Off Here 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 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
	Stories Written Along COVID Walls 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	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
	Waken by Melissa R. Mendelson (Goodreads Author), Emily St. Marie (Illustrator), Adele Brinkley (Editor) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
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	Porcelain 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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
	Silent Dreams it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 3 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
	Glass Skies Over Home 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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
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Goodreads Giveaway - For My Son

Thank You to everyone that participated in the Goodreads Giveaway for a chance to win my novella, For My Son. It was an amazing turn out, and I have begun to send the books out.

I do apologize that the ones going to Canada might take a little longer, but you will get the book.

Again, thank you to everyone, and I hope all of you are enjoying your summer.

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When Love is Lost

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We don’t want to learn from history. We would rather the blank pages to fill in for ourselves, but when the ink falls, so do the shadows, hints of something before. We pretend not to see it, pushing ourselves forward, but something is moving us back. ...more
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Can writers write the future? I once said that the future is like a Magic 8 Ball. You never know the outcome until you’re done shaking it up, but what if the variables don’t apply to everyone? What if someone pricked a small hole in a loose-leaf pape ...more
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