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Mel Bosworth is a writer living in western Massachusetts. His work has appeared in PANK, Annalemma, elimae, BLIP (formerly Mississippi Review Online), and Per Contra, among others. He is the author of the novel Freight (Folded Word, 2011),the novella Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom (Brown Paper Publishing, 2010), and the fiction chapbook When the Cats Razzed the Chickens (Folded Word, 2009).

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Average rating: 4.54 · 181 ratings · 66 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Grease Stains, Kismet, and Maternal Wisdom 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	When the Cats Razzed the Chickens and Other Stories 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Freight by Mel Bosworth (Goodreads Author), J.S. Graustein (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Hamper Affair 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Pooh in Meatspace 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Nouns of Assemblage by Riley Michael Parker (Goodreads Author), Colleen Elizabeth Rowley, Andrew Borgstrom 4.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	A Metazen Christmas by Frank Hinton (Editor), Mike Young (Goodreads Author), Jordan Castro (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	On a Narrow Windowsill Fiction and Poetry Folded onto Twitter by J.S. Graustein (Goodreads Author), Rose Auslander (Editor), xTx (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wrong Tree Review issue 1 by J.A. Tyler (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Sheldon Lee Compton (Editor), Rusty Barnes (Goodreads Author) 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Shudder Pageant by xTx (Goodreads Author) (Author), Mel Bosworth (Goodreads Author) (Author/Producer) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Mel Bosworth gave to: Watch the Doors As They Close by Karen Lillis (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
In her bittersweet novella about a strained and ultimately failed romantic connection between two young New Yorkers, Lillis successfully eludes the sappiness and excessive sentimentality that sometimes seeps out when writing about love. She accomplis...more
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Mel Bosworth marked as to-read: For out of the Heart Proceed by Jensen Beach (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Mel Bosworth marked as to-read: Men Who Understand Girls by Neila Mezynski	My rating:
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Mel Bosworth liked Amy's review of The Family Fang: " Arrgh,I keep waffling between 4 stars and 5. What the heck; 5. "
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Mel Bosworth gave to: Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Failure is a major theme running though Bell’s dystopian landscape comprised of twenty-six connected pieces, though Cataclysm Baby—bearing some resemblance to a catalog of baby names—is nothing short of a creative success. In a collapsing, sputtering...more
Apr 02, 2012 10:23am · see review
Mel Bosworth gave to: I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure by Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson	My rating:
In their collaborative mini-masterpiece published by the rock solid and always surprising Rose Metal Press, Erdrich and Nelson prove that three is definitely not a crowd as they not only invite reader participation but also quietly demand it. Constru...more
Mar 26, 2012 06:07pm · see review
Mel Bosworth marked as to-read: The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Mel Bosworth recommended I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure to James Caterino I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure by Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson	My rating:
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Mel Bosworth marked as to-read: Code for Failure by Ryan W. Bradley (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Quotes by Mel Bosworth

“I don't believe in fate, though, because fate isn't as much fun as freewill. But I do believe that everything is exactly as it should be.”
― Mel Bosworth, Freight

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“Helping is good, but too many helpings make us fat. We forget then. We forget to exercise.”
― Mel Bosworth, Freight

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“Death is a cure to a lot of things like cancer and disease and happiness, although I'm not sure anyone would want to be cured of happiness. And some might not want to be cured from cancer if that cure means death, because then they aren't alive anymore and being alive with cancer is something.”
― Mel Bosworth, Freight

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