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Melissa Volker

Melissa Volker

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 —…

Nov 17, 2017

Waiting to Drown

Nov 17, 2017

Melissa Volker

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…

Nov 17, 2017

Nov 17, 2017

Melissa Volker

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…

Nov 17, 2017

Nov 17, 2017

Melissa Volker

….

Enough

Aug 15, 2017

Aug 15, 2017

Melissa Volker

Slow Fade

The wood shop at the theater always smells of oil, sawdust, and varnish. You’d think that would be enough to kill someone, but it’s not…

Aug 8, 2017

Slow Fade

Aug 8, 2017

Melissa Volker

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 head…

Jul 17, 2017

Jul 17, 2017

Melissa Volker

The Heart of a Home

This is my diary. I am finally putting it all down because I am old, I will not be around much longer and I want people to remember that I…

Jun 19, 2017

The Heart of a Home

Jun 19, 2017

Melissa Volker

Muse

Riley shuts the door to the music hall and moves through the vacant space toward the piano — the hulking, silent beast in the corner of the…

Jun 10, 2017

Jun 10, 2017

Melissa Volker

A Case for Conversation

a mockery

Jun 1, 2017

Jun 1, 2017

Melissa Volker

A Slow Burn

Late to the party, I know, but we just watched the movie “Selma”.

May 31, 2017

May 31, 2017

Melissa Volker

Melissa Volker

I can now call myself, “an award-winning writer”. Dunno what that means in the world but it’s fun to say. www.melissavolker.com. My books http://amzn.to/2p5SF4a

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