Judey Kalchik
Bio
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.
You can also find me on Medium
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Stories (333/0)
- Top Story - August 2023
Vocal Creators Choose to Critique These BooksTop Story - August 2023
Animal/Farm Oliver/Twist LOTR Harry/Potter(s) Lovely/Bones The/Giver Earth's/Children/Series Ulysses Frankenstein Candide Bible Coraline Outsiders Belgriad Moby/Dick Pride/Prejudice Catcher/Rye If/This/Is/A/Man To/Kill/A/Mockingbird Never/Let/Me/Go Oryx/And/Crake Gone/With/The/Wind Catch/22 War/and/Peace Thirteen/Reasons/Why The/Old/Man/And/The/Sea Romeo/And/Juliet Robinson/Crusoe Fahrenheit/451 The/Giving/Tree Don/Quixote Wuthering/Heights Crime/and/Punishment
By Judey Kalchik 7 months ago in Critique
- Top Story - August 2023
Opening Paragraphs
The title and subtitle are the introduction to a piece and that first paragraph starts the action! On many platforms like Vocal and Medium, the first paragraph is also visible to a potential reader browsing through latest Stories, their homepage, or checking out the newest from the creators/writers to which they subscribe.
By Judey Kalchik 7 months ago in Chapters
You Can Find It! Identifying AI-Assisted and Generated Content
When I was a bookstore manager one of the things I did every Spring was make sure my CliffsNotes displays were full and that I had plenty of backstock for the always-assigned classics that students were assigned to complete over the Summer.
By Judey Kalchik 7 months ago in Chapters
The Night I Lost the Hard Salami
"I don't know what to say," I blurted nervously. "I don't know what Real People do in therapy." Hearing the echoes of my words I winced. What a stupid way to start things. I only had three sessions as part of my Employee Assistance Program and here I am wasting time already. AND revealing something that I was sure made no sense and that I didn't want to talk about: my concern that I do things 'correctly', the way Real People do them. I was here to DO Therapy correctly.
By Judey Kalchik 7 months ago in Chapters
- Top Story - August 2023