Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley is a columnist and contributing editor for Storyacious, an online literary magazine, and freelance writer living in Chicago. Her creative nonfiction appears in Stirring: A Literary Collection, Lowestoft Chronicle, Flyover Country Review, Tin House Open Bar, and elsewhere. When not writing, she busies herself digging a tunnel from Chicago to Queenstown with a plastic trowel but doesn't expect to see it through.

Issue 1

Headlight Eyes

He threw a Bible sheathed in olive suede at me when I pitched at him a dictionary with a spine broken past all healing.

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