Judey Kalchik

Joined February 2021

511 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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Herald Ablaze
Trees light: fleeting blaze Fiery jewels bloom, drop, settle. Shh. Now comes the snow.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
A Horse of a Different Color. Top Story - September 2025.
I did a search for 'Boy's clothes with animals on them' a little while ago and found these on the first three pages of results.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Humans
'Should I Pick Up Chinese?'. Runner-Up in The Road Drops Here Challenge.
Calling off was never your thing. Each day you left for dawn, did the drive though things have been tense I called today on your sick day.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
Falling
Frosty window pane Sundance Kid; the way we were Life is colder now.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
heel/toe heel/toe. Runner-Up in The Shape of the Thing Challenge.
Stepping carefully (heel/toe, heel/toe), my eyes lifted resolutely away from the Path, I move forward through the Labyrinth.
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Fiction
Holding Space. Top Story - October 2025.
when I say I hold space for you, I remember a time when the breath was squeezed to a little part of my body my lungs were compressed
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
"We Need To...
My attention was turned inward, towards a rest hard-earned no longer on guard, my wariness adjourned when you took a breath then spoke:
By Judey Kalchik 4 months ago in Poets
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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago in Poets