Wannabe writer with hobby of art. Stay and you'll glimpse a small piece of my heart.
Most of the time my dreams are silly. If you took a video game and crossed it with an action movie, that would be a good basis for my standard dream. Last night I had one that gave me reason to think it was a bit more than the standard brainchurn.
Read moreI don't take a stand. I don't make waves. Unless I gauge that I'm talking to someone who likely shares my beliefs, I don't bring mine up. I bite my tongue. I grit my teeth.
Read moreWhen I am in peak anxiety and most music scrapes my nerves raw, it is Owl City and Enya that can reach me in that dark place.
Read moreCovers: Weird, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Wingfeather Saga, Confessions, The Fountainhead, and more!
Read moreI grew up on a mix of Kenny Loggins, the Beatles, Manhattan Transfer, and lesser-known Christian artists like Rich Mullins, Keith Green, and Michael Kelley Blanchard. Add in a healthy dose of KUSC Los Angeles classical music station, and that was approximately the field of my early listening.
Read moreEver tried to focus on anything while a howler monkey screams full tilt directly into your ear?
Read moreOnce, there was nothing.
Read more"I can't do that." It's starting to dawn on me how often I've said this in my life. Heck, I remember having an entire defense of the words "I can't" planned out.
Read moreCovers: The Road Back to You, another Sowell book, PRACHETT, Schmigadoon, and more!
Read more48 days ago, I posted the last chapter of the Remara and the Book Thief arc and declared a break. It was time to catch up on everything I'd punted on for months and take a hot minute to breathe and enjoy how much of the story I'd written. It was less a break and more like an ongoing frenetic dash.
Read moreOver the years, many people have told me I should learn another language. Overflowing with inertia and struggling to find enough drive to manage my personal projects, I would laugh and tell them it would take me my whole life just to learn how each person in my life understands the English language.
Read moreIn my mind's eye, I pulled my shirts and dresses down the closet bar and removed my wedding dress from the very back of the closet. It has been hanging there for almost five years. I paused, a nagging question bubbling up next to the image. But why am I keeping this?
Read moreExhaustion drags at his movement. His body cries out for rest. If he stays still for another minute, he will curl up and sleep until morning. Until the Merchant marches in.
Read moreHe crouches in his lair under the left side of the desk. Remara told him that the whole room is dark except near her, but he feels more comfortable knowing he's beneath a structure, deep in its all-encompassing shadow. He will enter from here.
Read moreCovers: False Alarm, Immanuel's Veins, Star Trek: Picard, Amanda the Adventurer, and more...
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