Melinda Emily Thomas

Category: “Creative” Writing

  • The Year the Leaves Didn't Turn

    Greetings Gentle Reader, Please enjoy this rather atypical blog post. It is a short story I wrote after my grandfather died last fall. My goal is to publish it as an illustrated picture book (illustrated by me 🙂 in the manner of Barbara Cooney. With love – Melinda ~~~~~~~~~ October is a month for magic and mystery.…

  • The Year the Leaves Didn’t Turn

    Greetings Gentle Reader, Please enjoy this rather atypical blog post. It is a short story I wrote after my grandfather died last fall. My goal is to publish it as an illustrated picture book (illustrated by me 🙂 in the manner of Barbara Cooney. With love – Melinda ~~~~~~~~~ October is a month for magic and mystery.…

  • The Vanishing Stamp

    Upon the recommendation of a friend I recently visited my local library to pick up a copy of Margaret Maron’s Shooting at Loons, volume three of the Deborah Knott mystery series. (Which was delightful.) Book in hand, I walked up to the check out desk and gave the librarian my card which she scanned along…

  • The Orphanage: A Home for Homeless Words

    To write, you must edit. And to edit, you must learn to detach. You must learn to detach from that beautiful, elegant, witty, sardonic, and just plain brilliant turn of phrase that unfortunately detracts from the whole of the piece. Oh but how it hurts to delete our best work! If only there were a…

  • Seven Days of Grace

    Monday The skeletons of trees stand stark against the cold. The lava sun sets in the west, throwing a cast of copper over branched fingers reaching to the sky. Tuesday At lunchtime, a gaggle or two of Canadian geese mosey through a congested intersection. The light is green but drivers halt and wait for them…

  • When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Soup

    It is dry in Tucson. My sinuses hurt. Breathing is difficult and exhaustion has set in. At lunch a friend and I venture into a little Greek restaurant. We go there because of the geraniums and twinkle lights. Athens on 4th is a small, family run restaurant of the best kind; clean, bright and decorated…