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The Feminine Flame

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

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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Incantation Inquisition

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

Magisterial babble lingered in a void it couldn’t fill, horizontal candles turning to melt futility. Whispered conjuring, the tribunal’s forbidden feminine fearing what she could do with her own mind. Nevermore tragic hands, spread fate between splayed fingers, the course … Continue reading →

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The Cost

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

It was a job, time spent with tasks to do for someone else, repetitive meaninglessness stealing her creativity. It was security, providing benefits unless she needed them, the biggest benefit of all the dreams where she was somewhere else. It … Continue reading →

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Transcending

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

She tried to hide, tried to be that peg for every hole, denying her heart, her soul, her truth. Templates were lies, erasing expression, erasing her life, when all she wanted was to be the true self within. True freedom … Continue reading →

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Bucket Full of Stars

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

Time adjourned, drums long sounding, sounding still, without solace. The energy within strained to know more, to break all bonds, explore the universe. She sought the room for a mind’s escape, for freedom from hate, freedom from limitations. It was … Continue reading →

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Looking

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

He looked at her seeing someone else, someone ideal, someone she couldn’t be. He depended on her, someone to be useful, someone who’d wait when he was with someone else. He looked for her, but she wasn’t there, she’d looked … Continue reading →

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How Targeted Worldbuilding Aids My Storytelling

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

Worldbuilding is more than magic, it’s about choosing the right bedrock to build your stories upon. This became more clear to me when I began experimenting with my approach to revising. In the past, I’ve either worked on Carrdia novels … Continue reading →

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The Insinuation Hypocrites

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

Subtle Gentle. Indirect. Soft spoken. Words they used to describe her femininity. Words they used to decide she wasn’t qualified. Funny how those same words also described the discrimination they employed. ©January 2018, March 2021 Christina Anne Hawthorne

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Chasing Acceptance

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Christina Anne Hawthorne

There was a point along the road when she realized the truth, that being different was going to have to do. Chasing dead ends was a cul-de-sac of indifference, where frigid embraces bore no resemblance to acceptance. She’d waste no … Continue reading →