: About Me

Chrita Paulin is the Owner and President of Coal Under Pressure Publications, an independent publishing company. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Antares Chronicles magazine that focuses on life stories of African-Americans. She has been published in Upscale Magazine and a number of online writing ezines. She is a homeschooling mother of five and is committed to educational issues within the United States. Her children's book, "To Bake a Family" is scheduled to be in print in Summer 2008.

My passion is ...

My husband and my children.

I know too much about ...

this commercial system we live in.

My parents always told me ...

To thine own self be true!

My childhood ambition ...

To be an attorney, and the President, and a movie star and a doctor, all at the same time!

My favorite memory ...

Too many of them to pick just one.

Why I write ...

because you can't beat those who buy their ink by the barrels.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

anything I can consume while my children are sleeping/I am watching The Game and Law and Order SVU/I am listening to Jill Scott's "The Real Thing" and Alicia Keys' "As I Am"

My first job ...

a small town $1 movie theater

My best moment ...

Is yet to come!

My inspiration ...

My Husband

Creative Writing > Memoirs My second chance at life: True stories about facing death

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I saw the blood pouring onto the table. The nurses were desperately catching the blood with once pure, white towels. There had to be at least five soaked towels on the floor and the two nurses were holding more in their hands. My husband grasped my hand tightly as he, too, watched the blood pour from his wife's body. The nurse was hurried and the look of worry consumed her face. "I'm feeling really strangely," I said to the nurse. She ignored me and continued to rush blood-stained towels to the plastic-lined bins in the corner of the room. My body began to feel very heavy and my vision sta...

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