When you feel like writing and have absolutely no idea what to write about. What comes out, the stars, the sky, the evils buried deep within but what if you don’t want to talk about buried pain and built up stress, what if you want to be happy and write happy fairy tales for the… [Continue Reading]
Flash Fiction | Poetry titled: Who am I?
Who am I? Once upon a time in the sky, I floated on a cloud to my sweet love, I tried to tell him my deepest thoughts, revealing my entire being and he lay and stare, maybe into space or some distant memory whispers sweetness in his ears but my words float in the air waiting… [Continue Reading]
Poetry by Marilyn Orr Cruz Author of Bridgewater State, Mackey, and Cops
Ode To A Suicidal Friend… You dwell too much with death my friend, There is no mystery. * So rapt you are by the unknown, You spin your fantasy. Deep intrigue, And rituals, Mahogany So neat, Marble Angels… Profound words, Etched around their feet.. Oh! How we tend to glamorize death… Remember Camille…… [Continue Reading]
Kirkus Book Review for Lily Faye and the Mighty Oak
Reproduction Taken From: Kirkus Reviews LILY FAYE AND THE MIGHTY OAK BY INGRID JENNINGS ; ILLUSTRATED BY ESTELA RAILEANU ‧ RELEASE DATE: DEC. 17, 2020 A frog learns a little about science in Jennings’ picture book. Lily Faye just wants to bask in the sun, but there’s a problem: An old oak tree is casting a long shadow across her… [Continue Reading]
Summer’s Nightmare is available on Amazon’s Kindle Vella
Paperback comes out 2023
Thoughts
Thoughts Sitting in a deserted corner of a small village in the cervices of my mind. Lint balls, moth balls, powdery smells of old ladies perfume. This is a new place, a sad place, a place I didn’t know existed and I have been a lot of places. On the brink of suicide, extreme happiness,… [Continue Reading]
Midnight’s Cruelty
Midnight’s Cruelty Heavy lids, Watery eyes, A lite yawn flow in the air If only sleep could pierce my thoughts But fear keeps sleep in a distance ream. So here I sit and ponder away Keeping dreams in midnight’s mist. The cruelness of night, laughing in the dark, making fun of it’s victims nightmares. Demons… [Continue Reading]
Write
“God help me, God help me,” flew from my liquor stained lips. My grandmother’s hundred year old crystal scotch glass fell to the hard maple floor, and I dropped to my knees and closed my eyes in shame. The antique white walls begin to slowly warp, twisting and turning right before my eyes. My mind… [Continue Reading]
New Up and Coming Author Jewel Beth Davis
SUPERWOMAN By: Jewel Beth Davis Originally published in SN Review (snreview.org) The red light on the answering machine flashes on and off in an alarming manner. Listen. To me. Answer. Me. Come. On. Don’t. Walk by. You better. Listen. It’s New Year’s Eve. Nothing very exciting ever happens to me on New Year’s. Tonight… [Continue Reading]
Excerpt from Summer’s Nightmare by Ingrid Jennings
Upcoming Book Summer’s Nightmare If you like mystery, suspense, and romance, this might be the book for you. Gunshots pierces the summer’s air. One after another raining in my direction. The thunderous sound of the shots bounced off the sun bleached tomb I hid behind in St. Louis cemetery. My head against the engraved name… [Continue Reading]
Happy Birthday Maya Angelou (April 4th 1928)
With Maya Angelou birthday being right around the corner; I decided to pay tribute to a author that has inspired me since I was a child. A lot can be learned from Maya Angelou and her journey though life. She started at the bottom and raised to the top in a time where it was… [Continue Reading]
Struggling Bastard Poetry
Poetry by Ingrid Jennings The pain on my soul scrambles my thoughts into fuming desires blazing in my body ready to take hold of all sins from hell. Fighting though fatigue, I cry out for The Lord. Satan answers quite quickly devouring my anguish, feeding off my demonic ravings. Receive me dear Lord! Answer my… [Continue Reading]
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
A must read for Spiritual Enhancement Are you interested in a quick read that could change your life forever? Have I got the book for you. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra. It is a short book containing only 96 pages but it is amazing!!!! It has seven sections each telling you… [Continue Reading]
Past, Present, Future Poetry
Poetry about Life Past, Present, Future Just write about the good, the bad, The lingering pain stewing in my soul Just write and hope it someday Diminishes Hope time heals the wounds of a broken soul. Hope love will conquer all But in the mean time while hope is brewing….. Do I lie in bed… [Continue Reading]
New Up and Coming Author Cassandra Giovanni
Cassandra Giovanni is America’s next new Adult Romance Novelist. Here is a sneak peek at here latest novel Love Exactly Description: Emma Walker was a writer who’d lost herself to someone else’s anger–who had given up on ever feeling like herself again. Evan Levesque was a rock-god–the one all the woman wanted, but he’d… [Continue Reading]
History of Poetry
History of Poetry There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know. – William Cowper A brief look at the history of poetry. Poetry is a form of communication that predates literacy itself. Original poetic form was a device that was created to remember oral history, stories, the law and genealogy. Poetry… [Continue Reading]
Jane Doe
Jane Doe Rosy cheeks, Teary eyes, Sorrow drenched heart, Why oh why, Did he cause her so much pain, Frizzy wool hair, Glossy redish, pinkish, blood smeared lips. A face once envied by many now Pale and cold So easily he took her beauty. Never will it return unless unleashed by concealer and heavy make… [Continue Reading]
Reality of the Soul
Reality of the Soul by Gregory Harold My rating: 5 of 5 stars By pure chance I stumbled across a very intriguing book. My fitness trainer has a client that’s an indie writer; like myself, and he give his book to the trainer. To my good luck my trainer was nice enough to let me borrow… [Continue Reading]
Candlesticks and Ashes
CANDLESTICKS AND ASHES Wax just melted away upon my body, drop by drop, devouring my every spot. The seconds were hours of torment. The minutes, days of sadness and despair. My body sweats with thirst, my tongue drenched with dryness, my thoughts, no thoughts, just a long itching of pain scattered in the breeze. Candlesticks… [Continue Reading]