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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

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

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

Aug 25, 20174 min read

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, 20176 min read

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, 20171 min read

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, 20173 min read

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, 20164 min read

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, 20162 min read

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, 20162 min read

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, 20161 min read

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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MELISSA VOLKER

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