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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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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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
- Aug 5, 2017
- 3 min
Drama, Tragedy and all The Feels
Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: Every Wednesday I take our teen son on a road trip to spend the...
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Melissa Volker
- Jul 21, 2017
- 4 min
No, it's not a movie, it's a book -- but...
Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: I just spent three days knowing a chapter was all wrong from...
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Melissa Volker
- Jul 17, 2017
- 4 min
Truth in Writing
Whenever I do a reading, questions invariably arise regarding my approach to writing, where my ideas come from and how I get them from...
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Melissa Volker
- Jun 25, 2017
- 3 min
HIDDEN - why I wrote about anxiety
"HIDDEN: an impossible story" is a short, YA magical realism novel about a fifteen-year-old boy and his struggle with anxiety. There's a...
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Melissa Volker
- Apr 10, 2017
- 3 min
The Space I'm In
This is NOT my work space. It is lovely, zen, uncluttered, and unfettered. The view is -- green, and while not particularly special, it...
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Melissa Volker
- Mar 21, 2017
- 2 min
One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure
So I recently won a short story contest on Words and Brushes. Yay for me! But seriously -- I'm happy, it's nice to be validated, to be...
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Melissa Volker
- Jan 24, 2017
- 4 min
To outline or not to outline - that is the question...
I've been thinking a lot about writing...the act of writing, the putting of words to paper and making it real, rich, honest. All writers...
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Melissa Volker
- Sep 18, 2016
- 4 min
Thoughts on Life, Writing, and Inspiration
W.P. Kinsella died. For those who don't know, he wrote the book, "Shoeless Joe" upon which the movie, "Field of Dreams" was based. He...
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Melissa Volker
- Jun 2, 2016
- 2 min
Writing with an Ear
When asked about my writing, I usually say I think of it as painting with words. That I strive to craft my prose with an eye toward...
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