Available from Gold Wake Press, Amazon
The Classroom
Enter a school full of spies,
of girls who turn to rabbits, a school that detaches itself from the earth and, untethered, floats away. A school of bees. A school of stardust. A school downloadable, into a foot-port, over a summer. In these twelve tales, Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich unpack each magical classroom and the all-too human characters who inhabit them.
“Every student, every teacher, every parent, every person should read this wonderful, magical collection about what it means to learn and grow. It will creep you out and enchant you utterly - often in the same line, like life.”
—Amber Sparks
“If the Magic School Bus was driven by Kelly Link, you’d end up in The Classroom, a space between Nth period daydreams where your growing pains leap from cubby holes just to share their pudding. These fantastical lessons should be on everyone’s reading list.”
— Sequoia Nagamatsu
Available from Dynamo Verlag
Daughters of Monsters
A RAW AND MAGICAL BOOK OF SPELLS, AN HONEST YET HARROWING LOOK AT THE WONDER AND THREAT OF THE WORLD.
In these 17 short stories, a toxic cloud sweeps west to east across the country, devouring all in its path. Past versions of a man show up at the birthday party he's thrown himself. A lonely trucker delivers two-headed angels as part of a money-making scheme. And, in the title story, a daughter of monsters awaits her coming-of-age.
"If you follow your imagination far enough, you break through into the center of your own heart. This is a trick not many have mastered; Melissa Goodrich does it every single time."
—Ben Loory
"In Daughters of Monsters, Melissa Goodrich picks up the world as we know it and spins it on the tip of her finger. She adds a bit of torque with each story, and you start to wonder if it's going to fall. It never does."
—Colin Winnette