Melissa Volker
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, 20201 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20185 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
Haiku 2 - of a bloom
of lavender bloom awash in mist remembered and fading away
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Melissa Volker
Nov 15, 20172 min read
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, 20171 min read
Day 1 -- just another day
desiccated brown against ashen gray lining i am inside out
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Melissa Volker
Oct 12, 20176 min read
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, 20174 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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, 20173 min read
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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