We Love in Small MomentsA collection of short fiction that focuses on the moments where we love one another that the world doesn’t always see.ELJ Editions, 2021
Melissa Boles
Melissa Boles (she/her) is an impatient optimist who believes that storytelling is humanity’s most incredible miracle. You can always find her on Twitter, talking about writing, mental health, and Law & Order: SVU, at @melloftheball.
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (9 publications)
My Sex Life Makes Me Feel Like a FailureMy lack of sexual partners is not for lack of desire. It might be for lack of trying. It’s certainly directly related to how I assume people will feel about my body and my limited experience.
Light on Serotonin, Heavy on CreativityI had lived 1,000 lives before my tenth birthday, each of them a place I could bury my heartache.
(Inspired Writer Contest Finalist)
What Chadwick Boseman Teaches Us About Strength and ArtArt, whether it’s a film or a comic or a painting, is so often an escape for people. Whether you are consuming it or creating it, art can pull you away from the most difficult moments of your life and reset you.
pop culture
Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni Keep Getting BetterThe relationship between Benson and Stabler is as baroque as the characters themselves, cascading dramatically from unmatched adoration to intense exasperation over the 12 years we see them work together.
pop culture