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Melissa Allison

Melissa Allison is an undergraduate at Washburn University, and an editor for this year’s Inscape. She has a short story “Not Your Hero” published in Zimbell House Publishing’s anthology Hades Had a Son.

All in My Blood: Chapter One

I tugged on my red hoodie, unable to stop myself from sticking my tongue out at Phoenix when she gave me a look. She might think it was cliché that a Flannery wore red, but I just liked spiting her. Besides I wasn’t the one that had put red in her hair — and my choice had nothing to do with spilled blood, like she claimed. I doubted her hair was red because it was drenched in blood from battle. It would totally have been in a splatter pattern if that was the case and not happen in one night to just her. Read more.

Issue 14
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