Quiet Stories. True Stories.

Poems, fiction, essays, plays and columns from a writer who notices the little things.
I’ve authored six books and countless articles, essays, and a mountain of professional creative copy —but the real story isn’t about what I’ve published. It’s about how writing serves as a bridge between people, memory, and meaning. My published work informs and enriches my services, offering a reason to believe in the craft and care I bring to every project.
-Mark Morelli
This book is a playful, reflective journey through Christmas in all its messy, magical, and sometimes absurd glory. Through essays, sketches, and seven one-minute plays, it explores the holiday as cultural phenomenon, personal experience, and spiritual moment
​Your brain is crammed with news, notifications, to-do lists, and the latest viral debates. Forty Shorties is here to cut through the noise.
Rearview: Columns from Halfsquare 2005-2008. This book is for you if you know that the only way forward is by knowing where you've been, which is the tongue-in-cheek approach to life
Effwords: Faith, Family, Fatherhood & That Other One
18 essays with discussion questions for classes, book clubs, writing groups & journaling.
Tales of Zoalmont and the Melancholy Fringe    Stories: 1982-1993 
27 short stories of family, heritage and community, of a Norman Rockwell world colliding with a 24/7 media age.
The complete collection of PAH!, Mark Morelli's humor 'zine of gentle and jaundiced humor.  

"A single sheet of polished humor and fine writing from what seems to be an interesting life...a 'zine of off-the-wall humor and occasional deep thought...highly creative and satirical one-sided sheet from a very clever mind."
                                                            -Factsheet Five
​"Mark Morelli is a meaning maker with a love of mystery and humor."
 -Frederic and Mary Brussat, Spirituality & Practice
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