“A List of Songbirds.” Reprinted in Ms. Aligned 4: Coming of Age, Donna Lee Miele and Rachel King, editors. Forthcoming in 2023.
“Water for Songs.” Forthcoming in Festival Review, Volume 13, Fall 2022.
“Stardust Vigil,” Birdcoat Quarterly, Issue 11, August 2022. https://birdcoatquarterly.com/melanie-smith/
“Blackface in My Bones.” Blue Mountain Review, Summer 2021.
“An Imperfect Finish.” Windhover Journal, Issue 25.1, February 2021.
“A List of Songbirds.” Ruminate, issue #55: Under Pressure: Link: “Songbirds”
“Loosening the Knots.” In Is it Hot in Here or is it Just Me? Women Over Forty Write on Aging, a Pittsburg Social Justice Anthology. December 16, 2019. Link: “Loosening”
“The Rest of Where the Wild Things Are…Or, What about Max’s Mom?” Prometheus Dreaming, October 2019. Link: Prometheus Dreaming
“Wisdom.” The Coil Magazine, April 2019. Link: “Wisdom”
“Death at the Paw Paw Tunnel.” Fredericksburg Literary and Arts Review, June 2018. “Paw Paw”
“Nanna.” Short story published in Acorn Whistle, Volume 1, Beloit Wisconsin, 1987.
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