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She Wouldn’t Look Away
She braced, eyes wide open, the offense that was violence on full display, she took in senseless actions taking lives, taking away children before they’d lived, taking away the healing with more violence. As it should be, she wouldn’t look … Continue reading
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Promising Fire
The corridor’s end, discordant music in her soul, tortured screams whispering, drawing her near. She was herself, someone she didn’t believe, behind the door conflict waited, promising her fire. Paper dreams afire, fireflies dying on the balcony, one in her … Continue reading
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If I Must Choose, I Choose Ontyre
At the beginning of the year, I mentioned I was becoming disillusioned with the state where I live. I’m not going to go into all that, but I am going to examine the implications for my writing. You see, I … Continue reading
Proactive
It was the vow, the one she’d made to quiet her worry because everything could be worse in her head. The best path to take was the straight one, requiring proactive steps, no matter how small, because small steps also … Continue reading
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Missing Diagnosis
What she knew and what was true walked and talked illusions, her doctoring doctors prescribing control over her thoughts. She was hysterical was the tale they’d tell when she’d dare to question, just another woman who thought she knew her … Continue reading
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The Painful Road to Learning How I Learn
My rocky relationship with spelling is, in many ways, my writing journey in a nutshell. Maybe even my life. In the beginning, in elementary school, my struggles meant self-consciousness and low self-esteem. My spelling issues meant writing was more difficult … Continue reading
Don’t Bring Flowers
Don’t bring flowers to show that you care, bring your time to show you’re aware. Forget the flowers, once each year, instead show your respect whenever you’re near. Leave the flowers and instead use words, explaining flowers and facts you’ve … Continue reading
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Disrespect
Me, a selfish concept or a perspective I need? See me, hear me, the me I need to be, the person I expect you to respect, to accept, or we’re done before we’ve begun. Why then, I wonder, as I … Continue reading
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My Three Year Writing Break — Spent Writing
It’s a haunting feeling, the sense something is missing, that elusive something teasing its identity, then slipping away. That was me writing the Kovenlore Chronicles from 2016-18. It wasn’t writer’s block. More like voice block. I had a vision for … Continue reading
Separating Heartbeats
The struggle’s reality, hers to conquer. She said the words, heard the truth. “Focus on the present, focus on the now.” The between time separating past and future, separating heartbeats. After one breath, before the next, bookend ticks of the … Continue reading
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