My Truth.
I’ve been called things as a result. I’ve been accused of not getting it. I’ve read those conveniently meme-centric posts that flat out tell
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Melissa Volker
- Jan 4, 2020
- 1 min
Of Circuitry and Stars
Offering a free read of a short story uncharacteristic of my writing -- cyberpunk! Get it at the dropdown link "Extras" under fiction....
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Melissa Volker
- May 17, 2019
- 2 min
Until It Is Just "Batwoman"
Superheroes are big. In TV and movies. Cool. I love superheroes. Recently, women superheroes have been featured -- Wonder Woman and...
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Melissa Volker
- Apr 16, 2019
- 2 min
As The Cathedral Burned
I am not religious, and I only visited once when I was eighteen, and certainly didn’t appreciate it the way I would today. Nevertheless,...
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Melissa Volker
- Jul 27, 2018
- 3 min
DEEP WATERS
thoughts on my writing: its failings, its purpose, its promise
My published collection of short stories was born of a time in my early adulthood in Manhattan where I was single, sometimes lonely,...
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Melissa Volker
- Jun 8, 2018
- 5 min
The Buddha and the Wasp
There have been words milling around my insides for a while now, but they couldn't find a place to land. Politics and social issues...
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Melissa Volker
- Apr 17, 2018
- 1 min
Shattered - a poem for a fictional character
When truth has failed, your faith has sundered You lift your gaze, the question wondered The bough has broke The veil was felled, You...
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Melissa Volker
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
My Father's Tears
My father disliked how our society views children -- as though they are less-than simply because they are new to the world. In his work...
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Melissa Volker
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
A Hero Among Us
If you Google, "What makes a good hero?" in fiction there are a fair amount of hits that come up with lists of qualities and...
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 20, 2017
- 3 min
Time -- And Time Again
Time, time, time See what's become of me While I looked around For my possibilities I was so hard to please Look around Leaves are...
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 18, 2017
- 2 min
Throwing Down the Bones
You keep waiting for me to speak, but my words died a long time ago -- about the time you stopped listening. But I know more than you...
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 16, 2017
- 2 min
No Time for Metaphors
I have no time for metaphors. In my living room, a half empty coffee cup on the table, a cat retching up a fur-ball in the corner -- and...
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 16, 2017
- 1 min
Haiku 2 - of a bloom
of lavender bloom awash in mist remembered and fading away
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 15, 2017
- 2 min
Waiting to Drown
We are drowning in mediocrity, oblivious to our impending end. We are satisfied with the bland, content with the merely okay -- no, worse...
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Day 1 -- just another day
desiccated brown against ashen gray lining i am inside out
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Melissa Volker
- Oct 12, 2017
- 6 min
For The Love of It
I guess in my heart -- in that place that nags you not to eat the last cookie, or buy that too-expensive dress, or get tied up with a guy...
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Melissa Volker
- Oct 2, 2017
- 4 min
The Clothes Make the Man
(it's not about power suits and red ties)
We've all heard the phrase: the clothes make the man. Wear a power suit, and people will treat you accordingly. Wear rags, and the same...
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Melissa Volker
- Sep 25, 2017
- 3 min
Appropriately Inappropriate
I have difficulty with this notion that there is an appropriate time to protest injustice and conversely, an inappropriate time. How is...
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Melissa Volker
- Sep 24, 2017
- 3 min
A Wish
A friend posted a photo on Facebook the other day of one of those cool city fresco paintings; you know the ones -- they are those...
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Melissa Volker
- Sep 17, 2017
- 3 min
Silence
Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: When I'm working on a book, my first draft tends to be an...
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