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Melanie Maggard

Melanie Maggard

What I Learned from NaNoWriMo

I’m a winner! Cue the party balloons and champagne ✨🎈🍾 Considering the year we’ve been having, where it feels like it has been hard to…

5 min readDec 3, 2020

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What I Learned from NaNoWriMo

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Wasting Time

I’m sun-drunk, sticky from berry wine coolers. Seagulls scream, this loneliness won’t leave me alone.

1 min readJul 31, 2020

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Wasting Time

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Strange Skies

On our wedding day, strange skies celebrated our biggest mistake with scarlet streaks and sandy clouds, flames fighting in the horizon as…

1 min readJul 24, 2020

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Reframing Rejections

Your story is your “baby,” not YOU.

7 min readMay 8, 2020

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Reframing Rejections

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Melanie Maggard

100 Word Stories

Tiny, yet powerful

4 min readMay 6, 2020

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100 Word Stories

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Melanie Maggard

Frozen Shock

My teeth were chattering as I stood in the crunchy snow that covered my naked feet. I don’t know how long I had been standing there but I…

3 min readMay 29, 2019

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Frozen Shock

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Popcorn Massacre

She stared at the golden kernels as they skipped across the bottom of the hot copper wok. Slowly, then rapidly, they began to burst open…

1 min readMay 23, 2019

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Popcorn Massacre

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Melanie Maggard

Melanie Maggard

Melanie Maggard is a Seattle-based flash fiction and freelance writer who loves drabbles and dribbles. She has been rejected, nominated, and published.

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