BY MELANIE MARTTILA
Copyright is held by the author.
So many of them in branches of
mountain ash, ravening frost-
ripened berries. More root in
snow, fight their fellows with
beak and claw for berries shaken
loose from feeding frenzy.
Sleek and savage, these
pretty birds, this
feral display.
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Melanie Marttila (she/her) is an #actuallyaustitic SFF author-in-progress, writing poetry and tales of hope in the face of adversity. She has been writing since the age of seven, when she made her first submission to CBC’s “Pencil Box.” She is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s masters program in English Literature and Creative Writing and her poetry has appeared in Polar Borealis, Polar Starlight, and Sulphur. Her short fiction has appeared in Pulp Literature, On Spec, Pirating Pups, and Home for the Howlidays. She lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, in the house where three generations of her family have lived, on the street that bears her surname, with her spouse and their dog, Torvi.
