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    My Truth.
    Melissa Volker
    • Aug 27, 2020
    • 8 min

    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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    Of Circuitry and Stars
    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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    Until It Is Just "Batwoman"
    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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    As The Cathedral Burned
    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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    DEEP WATERS
thoughts on my writing: its failings, its purpose, its promise
    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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    The Buddha and the Wasp
    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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    Shattered - a poem for a fictional character
    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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    My Father's Tears
    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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    Time -- And Time Again
    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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    Throwing Down the Bones
    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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    Haiku 2 - of a bloom
    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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    Waiting to Drown
    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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    Day 1 -- just another day
    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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    For The Love of It
    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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    The Clothes Make the Man
(it's not about power suits and red ties)
    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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    Appropriately Inappropriate
    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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    A Wish
    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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    Silence
    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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