Category: Self
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Fun With DNA
My last few posts have been pretty heavy, so I thought I would do something a little more lighthearted. There are a variety of different services that offer DNA testing to find out your ethnicity. Last year, there was a sale on testing from one of the companies, so I decided to give it a…
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Yet, I Live
I shouldn’t be alive right now. Around the age of 12, I didn’t think I’d be alive for very long, and honestly, I didn’t want to be alive. By that age I had already experienced lifetimes worth of abuse; physical, emotional, sexual. I didn’t know that I would experience domestic violence, sexual assault, and emotional…
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Home Is Where The Heart Breaks (Part 2)
When I was five and a half years old, my mother took me and left my father. I was 6 years old the last time I saw him. We moved in with my grandmother and her husband. Even though they had been married since my mother was young, I will never refer to that man…
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Podcast, What?!
Once upon a time, people asked me to record myself reading some of my poetry. I never actually thought I would do it, but I proved myself wrong. Give it a listen: Hear it on Spotify or Hear it Here
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All Snakes Day
March 17th has always been a thorn in my side. When I was a kid, there was the whole pinching people for not wearing green bullshit. I like the color green, I’ve just never liked wearing it because it looks weird on me, as I have an olive skin tone and it makes my green…
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Shameless Self Promotion
I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, starting with short stories and eventually adding in poetry. A few years ago, I decided to self-publish a collection of my poetry. Before I self-published, I had posted some of my work on a message board I was a member of. Since then, a few…
