Life Signs and Fortune Cookies
Melanie Simms
Fiction
by Melanie Simms Stories and Poems of a Strange but Beautiful Life This collection of poems and short stories by Melanie Simms (all previously published in magazines, newspapers, and poetry journals)...
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Stories and Poems of a Strange but Beautiful Life
This collection of poems and short stories by Melanie Simms (all previously published in magazines, newspapers, and poetry journals) related to personal situations and experiences throughout her life. Included in this volume:
- The Fortune Cookie
- Life Signs and Fortune Cookies
- Isaiah
- The Snow Man
- Waiting for Jack
- Online Lovers
- The Visitor
- Little Green Men
- One More Hero
- The Recipe Box
Page Count: 57
Trim Size: 5 x 8
Publish Date: July 30, 2018
Imprint: Brown Posey
Genre: Literary
POETRY / American / General
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
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