Merle Summers (also known as The Unbound Writer online), is a college student pursuing her passion for creative writing. As an English Creative Writing major, published author, and an editor for a literary journal, she's dedicated herself to the art of storytelling. She loves helping fellow writers polish their work, offering editing services and draft support to help bring their unique voices to life. Whether you're looking to refine a short story, novel, or any writing project, she's here to help you craft something truly special.

Published Works

The Keeper's Shadow

A captivating short story exploring not just grief, but the way places hold onto memory and how spaces can feel alive with the echoes of those who once filled them.

The House Remembers

A short story that explores a home where memories take on a life of their own, manifesting as ghosts that linger, whisper, and refuse to be forgotten.

A God at the Threshold

A short story that follows an apartment dweller whose plants begin to wither and whisper, foretelling the arrival of a god whose presence is anything but divine.

The God of Insects

A short story that follows a girl who seeks out an ancient deity, asking for a single wing so she might finally know what it feels like to fly.

A Taste of Treachery

A short story that follows a royal food taster who must sample every meal before the prince eats, not for poison of the body, but for the lingering traces of human emotion.

A poem that follows a lover who tries to build a home from the touch, warmth, and words of another, only to realize that some people are too fleeting to be a foundation.

Not A Home

The Lament of the Haunted and the Divine

A collection of short fiction that drifts between the spectral and the sacred. From restless spirits yearning for closure to forsaken deities weighed down by sorrow, each tale explores the fragile line between the mortal and the otherworldly. Through whispered regrets, unfulfilled desires, and eerie encounters, these stories unravel the quiet tragedies of those caught between worlds: beings who haunt and are haunted, who seek and are sought, who long for something just beyond their grasp.