Melissa Volker
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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 25, 2017
- 4 min
The Eternal Blue
"I've been thinking a lot about this thing we all do -- life…" she began, her pencil absently tracing an invisible line around the open...
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Melissa Volker
- Aug 18, 2017
- 6 min
Reminiscence on Where We Go
A coffee cup, a ring of dried sludge around the bottom, a pair of round, tortoiseshell glasses -- one lens tinted dark where it bakes in...
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Melissa Volker
- Aug 17, 2017
- 1 min
If You Walk With Me
If you walk with me, you are welcome -- though I cannot guarantee the content of our time. My vision shifts with sun and shadows, rage...
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Melissa Volker
- Feb 13, 2017
- 3 min
First Snow (a short short story)
Dark, cold, buried beneath a pile of thick, soft, dense white; it is a time to hibernate and hide away. The world has vanished beneath a...
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Melissa Volker
- Nov 8, 2016
- 4 min
A short piece
Diary of Her a short tale of what was When did the leaves change? I think to myself as I stand in the path to the small patch of woods...
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Melissa Volker
- Jul 27, 2016
- 2 min
Ruins
It sits in a small patch of woods nestled between two neighborhoods, easily missed behind tangles of brambles, and curtains of ferns;...
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Melissa Volker
- May 25, 2016
- 2 min
Mr. and Mrs. M
I'm not sure how long they've been together -- I saw them for the first time last year -- but I think it's been a while now. It's...
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Melissa Volker
- May 10, 2016
- 1 min
A. Frond Minks -- a short fiction
A. Frond Minks stares out her back porch window wondering where all the deer were this past winter. There was a time when they could be...
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