Fiction

Sea and Sand: A Story Valley Anthology

Featuring my story, "Below Selkie Island"

Drowning dredged up the most random regrets.

You would think I’d regret leaping in front of the seal, using my body as a shield. Before that, I suppose I could have lied when I took the depths before our approach. I could have convinced Captain Leo that the Hamiota would never find passage through the boulder ramparts and hidden ridges guarding Selkie Island. After all, such were the very rocks battering me, filling my entire body in hurt such that I could no longer remember which hip the seal had bashed against, seconds before I fell into the sea. 

Ah, but that had all been for the sake of the expedition.

Now the undertow let go and I found myself staring, unmoving, into gently churning depths.

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Fire and Scales: A Story Valley Anthology

Featuring my story, "To Hell in this Egg Basket"

Fu-sha must return the scroll she stole before graduation, or risk being expelled and missing out on the advanced magics she's been waiting for all her life, the kind they only teach you in college. But to return the scroll, she must sneak around the sudden group project dropped into her lap as their final grade, and the best friend who expects to open a science lab with her in that wonderful, distant freedom called adulthood.

Oh, and the project? Peeping little creatures that not only need their utmost attention, but seem to have something odd going on with them, something their professors did not plan... 

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By Wing and Paw: A Story Valley Anthology

Featuring my story, "Starlight and the Dire Child."

Alone for the first time, dire wolf Starlight would move heaven and earth to end her Third Summer Rite early and rejoin the telepathy of the packmind. But as much as she fears the Emptiness, the pack won’t allow her to remain a pup forever. If she returns early, they’ll make her face the Emptiness again.

 

But when a human voice accidentally breaks into Starlight’s mind, the dire wolf must find a way to locate the child, the last surviving Wolf-Talker… with or without the pack.

 

Follow Starlight on an adventure where morality challenges the status quo, and where family comes through even when the pack does not.

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Premeditations Chapbook

Read an excerpt here

“Premeditations by Michelle Ristuccia offers an alluring sampler of dark flash fiction, bite-sized and delicious like a tray of freshly-baked cookies. And, as with cookies, you can’t stop at reading just one.”

—Alex Shvartsman, Editor in Chief of UFO Publishing

Get a signed physical copy directly from Michelle for $9 through paypal. Specify what you want the dedication to say in PayPal's notes.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories & Flash Fiction

"I Must Be Dead" at Kazka Press (C) June 2013
"Bang" at Dribblecast (C) April 2011
"For Safety's Sake" at Pendragon Variety (C) November 2010
"High Security at the Zoo" at Pendragon Variety (C) March 2010
"Worlds Apart" at Dead Robot's Society Podcast (C) Jan 2010
"Scouting Ahead" at PicFic (C) May 1 2010
"Jimmy' Leg" at Pendragon Variety (C) March 2010
"In Flight" at Pendragon Variety (C) March 2010
"The Adventures of Sebastian the Unicorn" at PicFic (C) Oct 2009
"Maggots" at Tweet the Meat (C) Aug 24th 2009
"Sleep" at Nanoism (C) November 2, 2009
"Faery Radio" at Nanoism (C) June 15th, 2009
"Queen" at PicFic (C) June, 2009
"Cherub Flash" at Thaumatrope (C) November 21, 2009
"The Beginning is Nigh" at 52 Stitches (C) Oct 25, 2009

Picture Books

Charlie Cat Book Series

Charlie Cat picture book series explores challenging social situations and neurodiversity through rhyme and fun illustrations. Every Charlie Cat book includes follow-up questions to help teachers and parents start conversations about emotions and how to handle them. 

For Thanksgiving, Charlie takes a break from the noise and socialization. Other books introduce the concepts of personal space, noise sensitivity, impulse control, speaking up and compromise in play, and wanting something we can't have.

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