Sometimes I feel like I’ve changed so much that I’ve left this body, this shell, this fraction of what I once was. Gone are the times for #mischief and glee. Only serious words, serious hearts, serious times. One by one you discovered my fears and gave them breath. #vss365

Never do this
Never do that
Rules to obey
But fate didn’t listen
Didn’t care
Didn’t hear
Now
The
Rules
Are
Broken
#vssdaily #never

One more sorrow
One more loss
One more tear
One more torment
One more pain
One more fear
One more regret
One more time
One more tear
#poetry

When we meet
Are we truly #together
Or do our minds drift
And wander and dream,
Wishing to be there
Instead of here,
Wishing we had chosen that
Instead of this
#vss365

I know it’s been a while since I’ve been in touch. I’ve been hiding #inside the cabin, afraid to go outside. I think they are coming for me. The note was the first sign. And then the shadows…so many shadows endlessly dancing among the trees, but never coming inside. Not yet anyway. #WIPSnips

The sky took on a #violet hue when it happened. A breeze made the wildflowers dance around me. I closed my eyes, breathing in the smells of summer, feeling the morning dew sticking to me. Suddenly, I felt a tickle on my ankle. A vine of violet flowers embraced me, stealing my last breath. #vss365

How can you promise me the moon? Such a promise can never be kept. You can’t control the events that will weave themselves into my life, creating knots and tangles. You can’t shield me from the pain, the agony, the sorrow. Don’t ever promise me the moon. #vss365 #promise

I stared at the eye of the #needle, wondering how anything could fit inside. It was then that the world began to stretch and sway. The needle suddenly loomed over me. The eye that had been tiny only moments before was large enough to walk through. I hesitated for a moment and entered. #WIPSnips

Things are just getting worse. #somebody saw me in the woods. I found a note on the back door of the cabin: YOU AREN’T GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS. It looked like it was written in blood. I’m so nervous, I’m shaking. This was suppose to be fast & easy. Why did I let you talk me into this? #WIPSnips

Books stacked #sideways for #BlueSkyArtShow…

I made it back to the cabin, praying I wouldn’t see anymore strange finger mushrooms. I stumbled twice along the way, too distracted to notice rocks on the path. If it wasn’t for the odd #sparkle of the trees, I would have tumbled down a hill. I’m just not cut out for this madness! #WIPSnips

The mushroom looked oddly like a finger sticking out of the ground. I grabbed pine needles to try to cover it up but they fell right off. The finger seemed to wag at me, defy me, laugh at me. A horrifying thought suddenly floated in my mind. Did the forest know what I had done? #WIPSnips #finger

Sometimes the people you love most become strangers. You’ve always known they weren’t perfect, but you never realized just how deep hate reached inside of them. You know now though. That is why you have to disappear. Not from their lives, but from their hearts. #WIPSnips #deep

A delicious latte, a pencil and paper, and a quiet nook. I’m ready to start writing today…

The #WIPSnips word for July 2 is "yesterday"

I'm sure most of you can guess what song this puts in my head...

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Yesterday. A word that spans time. How far back should we go? To the day before today when I realized avoidance was my super power? To 2 yrs ago when solitude became my friend? To 4 yrs ago when grief buried me? Or 5 yrs ago, before everything, when laughter was real & life wasn’t so hard? #WIPSnips

“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
–William Faulkner

The damage from a broken heart never heals. I’m not talking about a crush or a breakup. I’m talking about something that leaves you so shattered that your cries are wails and your knees tremble too much to hold you up. The kind of damage that takes a piece of you and never gives it back. #WIPSnips

Welcome to July!

The #WIPSnips word for July 1 is "damage"

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