Freelance Writer, Poet and Speaker     
   Melanie Stiles  
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Story Title: No Joke
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About Letters to My Teacher

Included in Letters to My Teacher is my story, Red Ink In A Journal. Red Ink details an interaction between myself and my Senior English teacher at the time of my mother's death. I had few tools to handle the grief, anger and other emotions going on inside me at the time. Read a wise woman's comments that linger with me even today.

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Excerpts from The Courage to Forgive
The Twenty-Third Psalm for the Brokenhearted by Carmen Leal

The year Melanie turned eight, her mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. A year later, Melanie's father started sneaking into her bedroom at night.
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Malachi 4:6 says, "He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers." Thanks to the Sheperd, father and daughter found the courage to turn their hearts to each other.

www.thetwentythirdpsalm.com
2008 Anthology Work

CeLEBRATIONS-love letters to grandfathers - publish date undetermined.

I Laughed, I Coughed, I Sneezed, I Peed (and other stories you may not hear in childbirth class) - publish date undetermined.

Other Publications:
Due out in November 2007
www.absolutewrite.com
Story Title: An Appropriate Response?

Due out in 2008
Cross & Quill Magazine
Story Title: I Pledge Allegience
I have been richly blessed, accumulating more than 140 bylines in various publications including:
Family Tree Magazine
The Sentinel Newspaper
Crosby Sun Newspaper
Yesterday's Magazette
New Writers Magazette
The Christian Communicator
Pedestal Magazine
Truckin' News
Home & Family Living
Evangel
The Write Heart
Whatever is Pure e-zine