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41 year old semiprofessional writer who also works with developmentally delayed adults and the disabled population. I have written on comission a variety of topics, mostly specific forms of fiction in minority sexual fetishes. I write a great deal on general

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Suicidal thoughts: 3 of 163
I stare at the gun It's singular eye stares back at me Daring to spin the wheel Take a chance? On a new and better life... ...or a different sort of hell Can I find the hope To put the pistol down To seek another dawn, another day Can my bitterness be erased? My Rage sated My pain silenced, forever. More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Death: 4 of 118
Death is something that many people fear, but I would put to you that it is not death we need to fear, it is the process of dying. I have spent many, many years of my life working with people who are in various stages of dying (as well all are). I have worked in nursing homes, skilled medical facilities, group homes with ... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A visit with grandma: 1 of 27
The tattered hammock held the old crone's form. Her weather wizened face, now in her late nineties had seen a world come to its apex, and then fall without grace. She sat on it cross wise, watching the children play sword fighting with sticks of oak from the local trees. The hilts of which were cross-members held tight n... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Murder: 9 of 194
Her face, frozen. She mulled the words over in her mind before she spoke of them. She looked at her therapist's face, his wisdom she had begun to trust, to diverge her innermost feelings, and her anger. "You see," he said, "you can talk about killing people all you like, but unless you have a true and genuine plan that y... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Death: 7 of 120
The skeletal bones of the tarot card called La Mort, or Death in English flipped up on the red satin tablecloth. The dime store psychic swallowed her saliva for the fourth time today. "Death?" Her client echoed. "The card of death does not always mean passing, but change. A transitory time in your life." She looked at t... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing & Rating at Helium Should you begin Helium articles by repeating the article's title?: 4 of 58
There is a formulaic problem in using a title verbatim in an article. The authors themselves do not create titles, on Helium. They are suggestions that the system is generating that require the author to conform to. When you do use it, you are setting yourself up for failure, and you're setting your reader up for failur... More..
Arts & Humanities > Arts & Humanities (Other) 10 things you can do in the library that will really annoy the other patrons: 7 of 90
1 Flatulence, of course, your first and foremost powerful weapon in the annoying persons game. A good healthy lunch of chili and coleslaw washed down with a couple of beers generally does it for me. FTW, smoke a few clove cigarettes. Adds that special, 'spicy twang' to the scent. Silent and deadly is the preferred delivery me... More..
Hobbies & Games > Hobbies & Games (Other) Are board games or video games more entertaining?: 2 of 24
Growing up in the sixties, there were only board and card games, as a rule. This influence on my life has only further gained greater strength as I have aged and grown. The big thing when I was a kid was a game called Risk. Risk is probably one of the premiere simple dice world take over games, which even in its modern form ... More..
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Blame: 5 of 59
The Right Thing to Do04 February 2067 08.17 Medical Bay, Mutant Military Corps Complex, Helena, Montana FirePower walked out of the Major's office, her nerves aflutter. It was all true, a rookie mistake and she made it. Now she had the Major on her ass, the acting CMO, who was a Commander, and probably had alienated Karl in... More..
Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Attaining the much needed gift of sleep: 2 of 22
As a chronic insomniac for most of the last thirty years, there are certain things that have become aware to me, certain techniques that are easy to do to create a sleeping regimen. This sleeping regimen, this pattern of rest is critical in order to make your own gifts of sleep arrive. First, of course, is your sleeping c... More..