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Pieces

She’d spent half-a-lifetime picking up pieces a man left behind, a man who couldn’t be bothered to ever do the same, the man who treated her with disdain. What if she assembled new pieces, all with her life in mind? … Continue reading

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Wrong Question

“What’s happened to you?” he asked, without looking her way, while avoiding the gray. If he knew what she knew about herself he wouldn’t have to ask for the first time. If he’d taken a moment to know the person … 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 Road to Respect

There was a special pain in the moment she realized years of investment had made her a thing discarded. Her two-way road to truth was a one-way lane fraught with lies, all the sweet words in the world still amounting … Continue reading

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Elation

The depth she’d found inside made her all the more alive. Elation. It burst forth from every pore, promising there was more, for no matter what they said outside she’d not die before her time. She smiled and skip past … Continue reading

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With Age Brings

He was a man —not a real man— searching for his next twenty year-old, spurning the old woman younger than him before he’d learned her name. What a waste, though probably not, for her decision was made years before, that … Continue reading

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The Possible Impossible

Growing up, told, “No,” or told, they really didn’t care, and so, she took advantage of neglect, dared to dream, to imagine possible the impossible. Threatened men angered, for them she dumbed down, ending opinions with, “I don’t know,” when … Continue reading

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The Difference

In her mind, which was more than she was given credit for having, she knew a central truth about herself, about life, that attraction was superficial until it appreciated creativity and thought. In her head, a fascinating place too few … Continue reading

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Clever

If and whenever, thinking herself endowed with clever, discovering the truth was more bitter than lies, the threadbare she owned was but rusted metal, the sword she was impaled upon. What they didn’t know, what her mind outside didn’t show, … Continue reading

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The Feminine Flame

On her knees, she lit the candle, beheld the beauty, the tranquility, the understated power. Feminine strength, elegant and graceful, often content to nurture and heal until wronged, and then an inferno in a leopard’s eyes. Let them scoff and … Continue reading

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