Judey Kalchik

Joined February 2021

528 stories

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It's my time to find and use my voice.

Poetry, short stories, memories, and a lot of things I think and wish I'd known a long time ago.

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Taproot
Seen by most: a weed started from one seed and from that seed, a shoot. * A shoot above, though below in ground, a stubby singlemindedness firmly downbound,
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
Invisible Girl. Runner-Up in Villanelle of Regret Challenge.
You see the whole world from the backseat Don’t draw attention or make a sound If you behave they give you a treat - Keep your clothes clean and neat
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
Measurement. Runner-Up in The Forgotten Room Challenge.
Each New Year's Day Mom would line up up against the pantry doorjamb and mark our height. She'd start with whichever child was youngest that year; as the oldest child it was my job to suspend fiddly babies upright (little toes jussst touching the tiles) so that Mom could make a deeply-etched pen mark into the painted wood signifying the top of their baby-scented fontanelle.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Fiction
Pieces
Your face Was on a photo today -seen on my Facebook screen. True, Your hair was covered. You were wearing a costume. I did not know you.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
Vocal Secret?
Here’s the way to be ignored Doesn’t matter the topic or if you’re adored Look like you’re writing about the Lord. # Here’s how to ensure that not a word
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Writers
Take the Back Roads
I was seven years old before I understood that Baby Jesus was the person nailed to the Easter cross and rose from the dead.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Humans
Nursery Rhyme . Top Story - November 2025.
Hey diddle Diddler- That cat’s a fiddler. The cows have jumped over the wall? The red hats just laughed To see cruelty made sport
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
Pay Attention
"Night fever! Night feeee-ver! We know how to do it!" Bee Gees trumpet at sonic decibels inches from my head. Fumbling through the warm down cocoon
By Judey Kalchik 5 months ago in Poets
When The Frost Came
Caught unawares again Can't see through the windshield until I scraaaaape the window with the tool locked in the car that I can't open
By Judey Kalchik 5 months ago in Poets
To All Your Content Read, Before...
To all your content read before and content yet to read, for sure; I'm glad you came along (Afraid I'm in the wrong), Creators that I've read, before.
By Judey Kalchik 5 months ago in Writers
There Is No Prize to Perfection
I sought perfection soul protection unconditional affection without continual genuflection or subjection sweet confection
By Judey Kalchik 5 months ago in Poets
Unheard Wails
Drifting dark blinds me Haunted echoes; unheard cry. All alone. Still dead.
By Judey Kalchik 5 months ago in Poets