Melissa Fraterrigo

Melissa Fraterrigo's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in storySouth, Massachusetts Review, Carolina Quarterly, Puerto del Sol and others. Livingston University published her short story collection The Longest Pregnancy and awarded it the Tartt Short Fiction Award. She teaches fiction at the Writer's Center in Indiana and serves as an editorial assistant for Sycamore Review.
Reading List
Ghosts
I didn’t believe him for the longest time. Three years since Mama’s passing, and he continued to see her. Day before the sale, I heard him scramble into his pants and flannel, laces criss-crossing, light still murky uncertain. I knew …