Melissa McCaul

Melissa McCaul's work has most recently appeared in magazines such as decomP and Urbanite. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from American University. A selection of her short fiction won the Myra Sklarew Award. She is currently completing a short story collection that includes “Paradise.”
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Paradise
All along Hotel Street that morning, the men waited in lines for bad whiskey, for tattoos, for their pictures to be taken with the kitschy hula girls. Last night there had been a brawl at Mom Mabel’s dance at the …