The Maid of the Mist

By Melissa Franckowiak

To the Native American princess Lelewala, the river isn’t called the Niagara. It will be many years before the river and its famous falls become a tourist attraction. It will also be many years before Lelewala herself becomes a legend for Native Americans and European settlers alike. In this famous legend, Melissa Crickard narrates The Mai

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melissa Franckowiak
• Release date: Oct 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9780999205907

Melissa Franckowiak

Melissa Crickard is an MFA student and a practicing anesthesiologist in Buffalo, NY. Her short fiction piece, The Very Pertinent News of Gabriel Vincent DeVil, recently placed in the 86th Annual Writer's Digest Literary Fiction Awards, and her work has appeared in Nanny Magazine, Parent Co., MothersAlwaysWrite.com, Blood Puddles, Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, and the anthology Children of Zeus, among other publications. Melissa is the mother of two children, the owner of a chatty Panama Amazon parrot, and a lover of all things outdoors.

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