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Melissa Dominic

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Melissa Dominic is a writer, mapmaker, and historian of places that don’t exist. She is twenty-nine years old and lives in a retirement community just north of Miami, Florida. She likes all manners of things falling apart and decayed, blood, guts, and gore and cold city streets. She likes rampant emotions, disillusions of the future, and the sound of insects in the night. She writes literary cyberpunk, super future noirs and map making adventures in the post-apocalypse, but it is easier to admit to speculative fiction with a love of genre-splicing.


People often ask me for my poetry recommendations. I’m not entirely certain why, but, I think it has a lot to do with the implications that I am an entirely picky person when it comes to almost anything. Generally, if I like it, people think they’ll like it.


That is a role I can live with.


So here is a short list of poetry related things I find myself most often recommending to people. This may c...

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William Gibson
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
William Gibson, Neuromancer

Chuck Palahniuk
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Lev Grossman
“Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.”
Lev Grossman, The Magicians

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“The street finds its own uses for things.”
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T.S. Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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message 2: by Steve

Steve Scott Hey Melissa! I love your taste in books!


Renatta Mercy me! Hello


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