the.authoress's blog

You feel me tighten up and try to soothe me, rocking and whispering quiet reassurances. Noticing that I'm unresponsive, you turn around in my vice grip of an embrace to see my face contorted in a mask of immense pain. Tears bursting forth from my closed eyes.  Read More »

Coming out had to be the hardest thing I've ever done, with getting over my first love and girlfriend of two years a close second; so one can only imagine the level of difficulty. I had just added a year to my life, making seventeen that summer and on top of that, dealing with Senior was beginning to really take its toll.  Read More »

martyrs were tried
and died
for their causes
under these same blue, red and white banners
that we fly over our skies
with airs of prestige and pride
but it seems like
we haven't progressed as much
as we'd like to think
or at least
not in a positive manner  Read More »

Pain and struggle, I guess. Reading and reviewing other writers. I read published and non-published authors. I try to assess who has it in them to become a published author. Stuff like that, I guess. Critiques from other writers and English teachers alike. Just... a whole lot of things. And I owe one fourth grade teacher somewhere in Louisiana a lot for getting me into writing to begin with.  Read More »

black. yellow. red. brown.
the most upside-down culture
you ever heard of
why? why call him brother?
when you won't date a sister
because she's... too black. too bright
not dark enough, not light enough
like "I like them peanut butter cups"
'cause the white man's got your
head messed up, cuz
her, too  Read More »

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