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Melanie Kallai
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Feb 1, 2022

A Great Catch

Jack felt a tug on the line. The first one. He’d been bounding from bow to stern, starboard to aft, and back again for an hour, keen on fishing with Grandpa. And now it had happened. The line zipped across the rolling bay, reel spinning at maximum whirl. “A big…

Flash Fiction

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A Great Catch
A Great Catch
Flash Fiction

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May 8, 2021

Kirsten

Kirsten wasn’t at the bus stop. My first thought? Betrayal. How could she miss the first day and let me go it alone? I wasn’t prepared for this. Kirsten and I weren’t popular, pretty, or special in any way, but we liked to pretend. We’d walk through Kirsten’s trailer park…

Creative Writing

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Kirsten
Kirsten
Creative Writing

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Mar 18, 2021

Five Techniques for Writing through the Pandemic

An Author-Supporting-Authors Piece Writing is a habit. If not done frequently, our skills get rusty. Like dancers must practice every day to stay en pointe, and doctors must read journals and attend seminars to practice at modern standards, as writers, we must also exercise our skills to produce quality work…

Writing

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Five Techniques for Writing through the Pandemic
Five Techniques for Writing through the Pandemic
Writing

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Jan 13, 2021

A Glimpse of January

The streetlights went out, and night became real — no more passersby to offer change or a dirty look. The temperature fell like a sleeping cat from a balcony — she’d seen that more than once. Mary wrapped herself in soiled charity and moved inside. Mary wasn’t her given name…

Flash Fiction

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A Glimpse of January
A Glimpse of January
Flash Fiction

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Dec 10, 2020

Will Science Direct Human Evolution?

The Gray Areas of Gene Editing In the early 1980s, I remember listening to the song “2525” by the American rock-pop duo Zager and Evans. To say the lyrics left me with the heebie-jeebies would be an understatement. I’d never heard a song with such a foreboding message about the world. The verse that stuck with…

Science

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Will Science Direct Human Evolution?
Will Science Direct Human Evolution?
Science

8 min read

Melanie Kallai

Melanie Kallai

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