Melissa Volker
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 6, 2017
- 2 min
Required Reading for Living on Earth
My fangirl letter to my new favorite author. I freely admit that no matter my age I am, at heart, forever and always an uncomfortable,...
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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
Stop Saying it's About Feminism
Fandoms are passionate. Some more than others. It might seem odd to pen a piece about a fandom's reaction to casting, because, well…it's...
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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
- May 31, 2017
- 3 min
A Slow Burn
Late to the party, I know, but we just watched the movie "Selma". I wish I could have recorded the moments after that first sentence was...
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Melissa Volker
- Apr 11, 2017
- 2 min
#Resist
We have a son who is fourteen years old. The first election he was old enough to be aware of was President Obama in 2008. We watched the...
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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
- 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
- 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
- Nov 26, 2016
- 2 min
On Birthdays, Life, and the Age of Wisdom
Birthdays tend to be a time of reflection (or hiding, I suppose, depending on your disposition). Every year I keep waiting for the "age...
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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
- 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
- Aug 27, 2016
- 3 min
Cats, Kids, and Couch Covers
A few years ago we decided it was time for a new couch. Looked around, sat on a bunch, checked out budget, sat on some more. Thought...
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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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