Melissa Darcey Hall is a writer and high school English teacher in San Diego, California. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast Journal, Phoebe, Santa Fe Literary Review, Fugue, The Coachella Review, Five South, The Florida Review online, and others. Her writing has been nominated for The Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net.
Fiction
- “The Opposite of Instinct,” Nimrod, Vol. 66, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2023
- “Not the First, But the Only,” phoebe, 52.1 Spring 2023
- “The Rules for Watching,” Gulf Coast Journal, 35.2 Winter/Spring 2023
- “Milk, Memory,” Nurture, December 2022
- “When You Were Full of Promise,” Red Rock Review, Fall 2022
- “Medusa Makes a Home,” Subnivean, Issue 6, Summer 2022
- “Some Assembly Required,” TIMBER, Issue 12.2, Summer 2022
- “Mina’s School for Fanged Girls,” The Coachella Review, June 2022
- “All the Dead Girls are Beautiful,” Suburbia Journal, Issue 5, Summer 2022 (Flash Fiction contest winner)
- “Our Bodies and All Their Limitations,” Five South, Issue 4, March 2022 (nominated for The Best American Short Stories 2023)
- “Girl, Revisited,” Fugue, Issue 62, Spring/Summer 2022
- “Feral,” Pigeon Pages, October 24, 2021
- “Rooted,” Peatsmoke, Fall 2021 (nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize)
- “Set Fire,” 805 Lit, December 2020
Non-Fiction
- “A Review of Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century,” The Adroit Journal, May 2022
- “A Toga, a Dress, a Cardigan,” Eastern Iowa Review, November 2021 (nominated for the 2023 Best of the Net award)
- “Embracing Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing During Shelter-in-Place,” Epiphany, November 2020
- “Love Like Orange,” The Florida Review online, October 2019
Melissa Darcey Hall 