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Shadowlands, Part 5
Laoise moved about her small cabin, thinking back on the years she had spent wandering in the Shadowlands. She had always found a hollow for shelter or a bundle at just the right time. Once, not long after she had gotten lost, she had found a small pack leaning against a tree. Inside, she had…
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The Nope Closet
Disclaimer: This post contains some examples that may be uncomfortable or distressing for some folks. This blog is for my own personal processing and does not offer nor replace any professional psychiatric advice or psychological therapeutic care. If you are struggling with mental health challenges, please seek medical attention, counseling, or crisis help. If you…
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Shadowlands, Part 3 and Part 4
PART 3 As Laoise worked her way toward home, she tried not to think about the events leading up to her getting lost in the Woods all those years ago. Yet sometimes, on days where she succeeded in finding a lost one and on nights where she could hear the distant howl of the Waste…
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Shadowlands, Part 2
Disclaimer: While I am a prolific reader of all sorts of material, I have not read everything ever written. As such, I am sure there will be some similarities to other works in the world and that is purely coincidental. All the material I write and share here is original fiction, came directly from my…
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Shadowlands, Preface and Part 1
Disclaimer: While I am a prolific reader of all sorts of material, I have not read everything ever written. As such, I am sure there will be some similarities to other works in the world and that is purely coincidental. All the material I write and share here came directly from my brain and has…
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Something Different
I decided to do something different for a while. I have been working on a couple stories lately – one a novel and one a short story still in development. Sometimes, it feels like I have these stories burning in my bones and I just need to get them out. But I can only write…
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To my Gretchen, the best puppy dragon
My beautiful pup crossed the rainbow bridge today. She was the best pup I could have ever asked for. She was a rescue, but honestly I think she rescued us. She had a billion names. Gretchen. Gretchers. McDudes. Pubble bubbles. Pupper rupps. Puppy dragon. Rubble butts. And more. She had been slowing down and last…
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Desolation and the Keening of Loss
Often, I find myself coming back to the heavier, deeper, darker emotions. Sadness, sorrow, melancholy, devastation…loss. I have been wrestling with these a lot lately and today in my Morning Pages1 practice, I processed a bit more about what draws me to these themes. Life has not always been kind, nor has it worked out…
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Silence Among the Ruins
There are times in my life when I crave the second noun form of silence – “absence of sound or noise: stillness.”1 This world is loud and seems to have only gotten louder still in recent years. I find my heart and body and soul aching for silence and stillness, especially as a mom of…
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Living Loss
I recently wrote a paper on grief and the idea of “living loss,” where the loss is not in a physical death of a person, but of a persistent, permanent loss of something or someone important. This type of grief can crush a person. Of this, I know full well. The last two months have…
Jewels from the Dark 