October 15, 2017 Carve Magazine Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky October 15, 2017 Carve Magazine Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest After seeing an episode of Law & Order in which a mother murdered her infant child by forcing it to swallow a kitchen sponge, forty-one-year-old Todd Melkin was even more convinced that he had a tumor in his brain.