Little Box of Horror    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $1.99 USD. 15330 words. Published by Olo Books on June 15, 2011. .
Award-winning author Melissa Yuan-Innes gathers three of her most disquieting tales, "Skin Song," "The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls," and "Mrs. Marigold's House" for your reading (dis)pleasure. From a medical student rightfully afraid of dissecting a cadaver to sadistic nuns and vampire schoolgirls, come in and open this little box of horror.

The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $2.99 USD. 19770 words. Published by Olo Books on June 29, 2011. .
Welcome to the ER through the eyes of an emergency doctor. That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the department, "You. Are. The Most. Unfeeling doctor. I have ever met!" Come on in.

Skin Song    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $0.99 USD. 5430 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. .
"[A] medical student who is anything but ordinary... Kyla has a strange gift: she can hear skin songs. To her, a person's skin has a song and each person sounds differently. On arriving at med school she finds herself in a quandary: does the skin song continue after death? Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." -Alicia Curtis

A Pain in the Toenails    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: Free! 1840 words. Published by Olo Books on July 15, 2011. .
Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards. One patient taught me about ulcerative colitis...and a few other things. You can also find this essay in my book, The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room.