The Un-Friending Process

When the staleness of a past argument is left in your mouth, nothing tastes right.  Nothing feels right either.  Things you once used to enjoy are laced with a frown, pulling at your smiles.  Words spoken or unspoken keep you from progressing anywhere back to “normal” or forward.  Why can’t a friendship be stronger than [...]

Susie Sells Shells Down By the Seashore. Maybe I’ll buy one of hers…

I feel like my protective shell, the one in which I feel most comfortable, is cracking and soon will shatter.  This would reveal the worst thing an introspective soul could imagine: themselves, wholly and transparently.  Keeping up the front, holding the nightmares at bay and protecting my insides from the outside is the purpose of [...]

This Writer’s Intentions

When I write, I need to not be worried about the thoughts that others might misconstrue. I will try to be sensitive to other people’s souls and well-being, but I have to be aware that if I consistently cut out material, my story will have no meaning.  It will be unrelatable because the characters will [...]

In Honor of Truth and Slander

With this friend by our side we could do anything and in the chance their dignity is slighted, we would do anything to protect the person we so dearly cherish. But where is the line that divides us- those who made the feeble attempt and those who went too far?