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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DABDA. Top Story - August 2025.
A book written when I was 10 years old has been nagging at my thoughts and I've just realized why. The book is On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and a book that talked about death was so novel that Time magazine named her as one of the '100 Most Important Thinkers' of the 20th century.
By Judey Kalchik 7 months ago in BookClub
The Messenger
I swore that I would never forget but over time the rhythm and rhyme twist and turn my memories blurred then burn with doubt
By Judey Kalchik 7 months ago in Poets
Candle in the Window. Runner-Up in Leave the Light On Challenge.
"Will Mommy be here to tuck me in tonight?" "Sure, Sugar. Mommy will be here before bedtime." "But I'm already in bed, silly. Does that mean it's bedtime now? Should we turn out the light?"
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Fiction
Be Careful
I wonder how often we have this 'discussion'? How many times have I, so far, enjoined you to 'Be careful'? I tell you when you go to work, when I leave for work, when you go out to cut the grass, when you head out hunting, when you take your daily walk.
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Confessions
Persevere
I fall down, Allowed to be overwhelmed- Slowly, slowly I get up. What does Help look like to you? I walk One hope at a time
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Poets
Perfect
They awoke, as they did every time sleep left them, into darkness. With the ease developed by maneuvering through an unseen world they left their chamber and removed the accumulated toxins and liquids from their body quickly and efficiently with the extractor then moved towards the replenisher to restore their electrolyte balance.
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Fiction
What Gets Measured Gets Done
In retail EVERYTHING is subject to measurement: sales per linear foot sales per hour purchasers as a percent of visitors average dollar per purchase average dollar per item average sale per day
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in The Swamp
All You Need
Now listen close (I promise it's true) hark well the wisdom I'm sharing with you. The most unexpected way for you to disappear
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Poets
Hello?
Hello? Your car alarm? It's going off? Outside my window? Still? Like it has for the past (checks watch) two hours? Lights flashing?
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Poets
You Have NOT Lost Control
Change how you look at food: you are procuring fuel for your body. Fuel for your family. Fuel for your community. Try to remove the emotion and take a deep breath. You have not lost control of things. You control what YOU DO about things.
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Feast
That Escalated Quickly
It's nice that we've lived here eighteen years yet we still make new friends with the neighbors and then find out we have more in common
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Poets
"Finish Your Dinner..."
I don't know why my mother went to Tupperware parties. Maybe it was to win a mini-yellow-burp-able-bowl-on-a-keychain? Maybe it was the satisfying 'schwoomp' of a Jell-o (not a sponsor) mold slooping into place when the specially-made insert was removed? Getting a little time away from the five kids? It's not because we needed the containers. That is why we bought the BIG and mini containers of Imperial margarine. With their reusable storing cavities we didn't need to spend money on pastel Squares and Bowls.
By Judey Kalchik 8 months ago in Feast