a life light a flickering beacon, of hope? i can't tell, there is an overcast a mist i can't see through. but my heart is pumping adrenaline firing in my veins, i'm running? i've lost feeling, i'mย stumbling (?) towards that flickering light. too busy trying not to be hit by overhanging branches, rotted stumps, obstructions. [...]
Category: books
REVIEW: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
the comic books have it wrong
the comic books have it wrong and so do the movies, multiverses with no thought to the irrevocable fact that Mothers are the strongest Superheroes in the known universe and unknown multiverses. what good are the Avengers when you have a mother ready to always have your back, to slaughter your demons with no thought, [...]
what does she have?
one of the saddest things to bear witness to is the sudden realisation of their own mortality. she says that she's old and she doesn't want to die. she calls aged care homes a prison, and she doesn't want to collapse into the arms of death from inside a cage. that daughter that she stabbed [...]
today is a better day
today is a better day. not so much an empty shell but a cracked one with feelings trickling through, a lost soul fighting its way into its Home. i'm smiling. it doesn't take as much effort to move the muscles of my face and showcase a feeling a thought, i'mย here. it's a [...]
today is a bad day
today is a bad day. i should come with a warning a flashing signal letting those around me know, i'm walking a tightrope (soulless) the precipice of which i feel will crumble and leave me stranded Alone. it is not because I feel overwhelmed a riotous overflow of emotion. it's the opposite. [...]
rode the dragon who breathed fire
I don't know how we did it but we did. rode the dragon who breathed fire destroyed towns and cities to get where we are. there was a time wasn't there where we were worried about having to sleep in the car. it was the not knowing, that nearly killed us dragged us down into [...]
a prayer for forgiveness
a crack a shudder a miasmic eruption of molten lava. the hatred i spewed an explosion soul-crushing guilt with a prayer for forgiveness. i knew i was supposed to have a love far greater than the one i knew i owned for you. i understood that you were from a different generation. an immigrant who [...]
Adorable YA Reads: Part One
*PLEASE NOTE THAT MAJORITY OF THIS WAS WRITTEN PRIOR PLACEMENT* ย Iโll have you know that I am a master procrastinator. Instead of doing homework - and trust me I have a mountain load - I sit down on my dinner table, and write mini-reviews. Because if Iโm not doing homework, I am reading. Literally, [...]
TOO FAT, TOO SLUTTY, TOO LOUD by Anne Helen Petersen
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Womanย by Anne Helen Petersen, is an analytical study concerning the notion of what it means to be an โacceptableโ woman. Through the lens of female celebrities, Petersen emphasises the boundaries by which female behaviour is policed in both the public and private [...]