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Who Needs To Be Revived
It is spring that revives, even as the world begins to claw its way out from under the suffocating blanket of so many things better left unsaid why in fact don’t we all just stay in the cold in the … Continue reading
Posted in On Depression, Poetry
Tagged cabin fever, cold, depression, misery, poem, poetry, season, seasonal affective disorder, snow, spring, winter
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1000 words: Unspoken
Some days were harder than others. She woke at first light, sometimes to find he’d already been awake long enough to set fire to the towels in the bathroom, and instead of alerting her, he dropped them in the tub … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Flash
Tagged cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, commitment, delusions, dementia, determination, hope, jones, love, mental illness, misery, the blue-eyed man, trial, writing
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Every Time, For Him
It was easy to get caught up in the minutiae, easy to think of what she did, day to day, as the important stuff, when in fact it was the overarching pattern she’d wanted to accomplish. She didn’t do it … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Flash
Tagged blue-eyed man, cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, companion, dreams, fiction, flash, flash fiction, grief, Hell, hope, jones, loneliness, loss, love, misery, waiting, writing
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There/Not There
slipping down reaching clawing wet hands bloody hands reaching grasping in the slick slip mud slide down the pitch right to the edge right to the edge hang on hang on hang on hold on too late falling done falling … Continue reading
Posted in On Depression, Poetry
Tagged black dog, depression, despair, hate, mental illness, misery, motherland, poem, poems, poetry, sadness, self esteem, self loathing, trigger, writing
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Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared … Continue reading
Posted in Love Poems, On Depression, Poetry
Tagged anger, connection, depression, dreams, fear, grief, hate, heart, hope, life, loneliness, loss, memories, memory, mental illness, misery, pain, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, writing
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