‘My Nascent Garden’ is a dark sci-fi short story about a psychopathic city with a crush published in the July/August 2022 Edition of Analog Science Fiction & Fact.
‘Data Migration’ is a creepy cli-fi short story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Strange Horizons. It won Best Short Story in the 2022 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.
‘A Squash of Commuters’ and ‘A Galactic Symphony’ are sci-fi drabbles by Melanie Harding-Shaw that feature in Apocalypse: Dark Drabbles #6 from Black Hare Press
‘Common Denominator’ is a reprinted sci-fi short story by Melanie Harding-Shaw that was selected for inclusion in Paper Road Press’s Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy Volume 1.
‘The Fisher’ is a free-to-access slipstream short story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published by Newshub’s reading room. It is a finalist for Best Short Story in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards
Melanie Harding-Shaw’s drabbles ‘She was no witch’, ‘Green is more than skin deep’, and ‘Break glass in case of emergency’ appear in the Blood Song Books Curses & Cauldrons anthology.
