I had to make peace with the past; I had to feel it all over again. Or, maybe rather I chose to feel it; again. I began to digest and to process what had happened to me as a child, as a teen, as an adult

[all three character sketches of Madison] Original screenplay and art MANEATER BY: @laurabell EXT. TRAILER - NIGHT A blanket of moonlight shines upon a rusty trailer. INT. TRAILER - NIGHT The glowing moonlight

FAMILY OF FIVE \ ORIGINAL POEM father said all men weren't good enough for me. queen of mean teenage dream ripped at the seam. They all beeline for the canteen to behold bold strokes on the bathroom wall.

silent // ORIGINAL POEM silence of the lambs, from grams to programs. fromprogramsbacktograms. from grams to ounces. from ounces to pounds. from pounds to townes. silence of the sheep, skin deep sleep

"BRIDGES" rage loaded gage explosions a positive omen broken. returning to bridges burnt down gravesites overturned, a village in ashes. internalized immobilized demoralized ostracized. witching

ORIGINAL POEM: "O" can't speak can't talk can't walk can't sulk I reek I am chic I seek to speak can't speak can not speak not speak speak not knot speaking in knots speaking in code can you

I had a New Years resolution in the beginning of this year to read fifty books. This will double the twenty-something personal record I had in twenty fifteen-ish. If I wanted to be a "world renowned

I was inside of Second Nature Wilderness Program (SNWP) and my parents would send me letters every week that would be brought by the therapist. Communication with the outside world, even my parents was

@drrune recently commented on my previous post, "I've personally learned that Responsibility = Freedom. May you always be given the space to hold yourself accountable and answer to no other person

words are like a bit of medicine for the soul. The idea of responsibility felt overwhelming and downright impossible. I would respond, essay after essay; letter after letter -- I would write back and be

{when I am writing I feel} DICTIONARY DEFINTION a·nal·o·gy a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. a correspondence or partial similarity. a thing which

The art inside of me isn't something that I can control. I am writing on this platform because I believe web 3.0 is the way of the future, I can sense it. And I want to honor my love of it, I spend a lot

These are some older pictures of myself when I began this cycle. It has caused me to refect upon the now. Here I am living in the same state --- potentially taking on the same job that I had, where I once

I went viral on tiktok; three videos so far climbed over one million views, some even got to two. And so, I am excited to unite HIVE and TikTok one day. {new moon energy, an "old" painting; 2020}

Art is a process. And I am documenting How I — I gave {you} my pain on a silver platter; raw, undigested thought matter. this is the complete progress of my black lit painting {so far}. number four in

{a native delaware cactus.} white lifeboat // original poem the titanic went down; two life boats floating. my mother just sat there, staring. “mom, I’ve got to get going — now.” i can’t try and move you.

I AM WHOLE // original poem my apologies if you missed the god in me the god shaped whole in me i am the black hole they warned you about. can you see through me? through that window when chaos leaks out

A stranger came up to me when I was writing in my notebook; a bit stranger when he asked to borrow a piece of paper and a pen — and oddly enough he came back to return both. “It’s a note, read it.” I’ve

Who am I? I used to journal as a kid and begin every new diary with a proclamation of self. I would attempt to answer “who am I?” And would proceed to list various things I believed I was — a writer, a

I wrote this awhile back. I reread it today to feel the anger coming from my child self. It made me think about the parents who claim corporal punishment to be okay, “because that’s what my parents did