Stories by Victoria

Short Fiction

2024 “Oh, Louise”

in Bright Flash Literary Review, August 2024
brightflash1000.com

2022 The Satisfaction of Longing

Wordrunner eChapbooks Fiction Issue, Summer 2022.
www.echapbook.com/fiction/melekian

2021 “Leftovers”

in FEED Issue 2.8. feedlitmag.com/2021/06/04/issue-2-8

2021 “Pushing”

in FEED Issue 2.8. feedlitmag.com/2021/06/04/issue-2-8

2019 “Something to Salvage”

WOW! Women on Writing, Summer 2019 Flash Fiction. wow-womenonwriting.com

2018 “A Slow Boat to Finland”

in In the Debris Field: Three Novellas in Flash, ed. Bath Flash Fiction Award, 57–97. United Kingdom: Ad Hoc Fiction, 2018. (Available from Bath Flash Fiction Award.com .) Reviewed in SmokeLong Quarterly, www.smokelong.com/losing-and-finding-in-the-debris-field-a-review-of-in-the-debris-field/

2018 "Hollow"

in Ink In Thirds Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018, Volume 2, issue 1, 2.

2017 "Help"

in Fixional, June 2017. fixionalinc.com/help

2017 "Survey of Widows"

in Monkeybicycle, May 5, 2017. monkeybicycle.net/survey-of-widows
Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize

2017 "At Risk"

in Literary Orphans, Issue 28: Tesla, edited by Scott Waldyn, www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/risk-victoria-melekian

2016 "Looking for Stars"

in The Literary Vine Review, Volume 1, edited by Carlos de los Rios and Marni Freedman (Alpine, CA: Wolfheart Press), 181-194.

2013 "Dandelion Wish"

in Valparaiso Fiction Review. scholar.valpo.edu/vfr/vol3/iss1/4

2009 "Fallen Oranges"

in Word Riot July 2009. wordriot.org/archives/709

2008 "How to Spell Egypt"

in A Year in Ink: Volume 1, edited by Thomas Larson (San Diego: Ink Spot Press), 39-46.
republished in The Satisfaction of Longing, echapbook.com
Nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize

Narrative Nonfiction

2010 "One Week Later"

in Survivor's Review XI, survivorsreview.org/features.php?vol=11&art=163.