My Body Art – FPQ #144

This week’s provocative question from Fandango is about tattoos. Do you have any tattoos? What is the meaning or significance of them? If you do have tattoos, do you have any regrets about any of them? My Answer is: I have a little under two handfuls of tattoos on my body. I love body art, …

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E.M.’s Truth for Tuesday

Today's Truthful Tuesday is about life and how it decided to treat us on this November 16th Tuesday. PCGuyIV asks us how life is treating us and to share a truth about today. My Tuesday has been traumatic to my body. My dogs are rebellious at times, and they pee on things when they are …

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The Lover’s Walk

This week’s Story Starter teaser is: We had planned to meet under the bridge at midnight, but... my heart was still so fragile from the night before. Deon and I had a terrible fight last night, and I had spent the majority of my night hugged up with my pillow and soaking it with tears. …

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I Found Out Today

Little secrets, little liesIrrelevant at the time Two hours later, not enough timeI was never really on your mind Deception of mind, trying too hardYou never were really mine All my money, financially struckYou used me while you moved on Blame game, hurting my soulI'm singing my same ole song Loyalty I gave, destruction receivedMy …

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Flashback Friday – Grounded Happily

This post was originally published on October 29,2020. I am sharing it again for Fandango's Flashback Friday. I remember this day very well. It was a good day and clarified my standing with myself. I lost it again somewhere between then and now, but I am slowly coming back up. It's funny how time changes …

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Pain and Progress: Inner Demons

I walk about like a wraith. The resemblance of my inner demons more than of myself. Cloudy and murky in the past tense of who I was. Current in suffering that comes to be the person I am today. My pain is present, existent to impel me to my goals. I have to monopolize on …

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2010 – Story Starter #16

Fandango has a weekly Story Starter to get us writing some new goodies on our blogs, and it's a great way to get a story started and be inspired to write. This week’s Story Starter teaser is: It was in the spring of 2010 when I first realized that I could… free myself from the …

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Anxious Heartbreak

Her upper lip quivered as she felt her heart being ripped from her chest. The world she had created was being swallowed up by the fissure of mistakes of her past. One conversation would change life back to a time when she was unstable and broken. Her heartbreak was matching the anxiousness she was feeling …

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