‘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
‘The Six Stages of Revenge’ is a Horror Short Story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Trickster’s Treats #3, a charity anthology by Things in the Well.
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.
‘An Avian Introduction’ is a Fantasy Prose Poem by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Something Strange Happened in Rotorua, the GeyserCon Convention book.
‘A Devoted Husband’ is a Dark Fantasy Story by Melanie Harding-Shaw published in Breach Zine Issue #9. Finalist for Best Short Story, Sir Julius Vogel Awards.
