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For those who dream of living in stories...
Let's settle on writing about them.

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Story Before Slumber

For those who dream of living in stories...
Let's settle on writing about them.

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June 26, 2024

Beautiful Day

As published in Unseal Your Best Life Poetry Anthology by Lauren Brill (www.theunsealed.com). Can be purchased on Amazon. Beautiful Day It’s 6am When the…

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June 21, 2024

A Court of Silver Flames

A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas, 2021 (Spoilers) Maas’s last (as of now) installment in the ACOTAR series is the Cassian and…

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June 11, 2024

Self-Love

As published in Ocean Poetry Anthology 2024, edited by A.M. Larks, illustrated by Leslie Gonzalez. Available for purchase on Amazon. Author Bio: Danielle is…

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June 1, 2024

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors, 2022 Apologies if anybody takes issue with this comparison but the themes in Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein—hard truths about…

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May 23, 2024

Little People

Sure enough, her dolls were still there, some slumped and others standing tall. Inspired by this quote from The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah, 2015. The…

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May 19, 2024

Elven Dance

Table after table of food had been lined up along the far edge of the plateau, and I lost Tamlin while I waited in…

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May 18, 2024

Atonement

Atonement, Ian McEwan, 2001 (Spoilers) In a novel so honest it unsettles me, Ian McEwan’s Atonement gives the full and complete narrative of Briony…

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May 13, 2024

Permanence/Diffidence/Fatal Embrace/Thoughts After You’ve Left Me With Myself/Thaw

Published in Contemporary Jo Literary Magazine Issue Vl (can be purchased through amazon or online site, contemporaryjo.com/shop) Content Warning: Young love, Body Image, Suicidal…

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May 4, 2024

A Court of Frost and Starlight

A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas, 2018 (Spoilers) ACOTAR’s A Court of Frost and Starlight is different than the rest of…

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April 22, 2024

A Court of Wings and Ruin

A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J Maas, 2017 (Spoilers)  And now for the war!  In ACOTAR’s first installment, A Court of Thorns…

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