: About Me

I am a 27 year old school counselor living in North Carolina. I have been writing stories and poetry since I was a child, and have never really been brave enough to share it with anyone other than close friends and family. Thought I'd give this a try. I recently wrote a novel through NaNoWriMo that I have gone through some self-publishing. I can choose now to eithe offer it on Amazon.com or I could attempt to go through a publishing agency. I'm not too sure what I want to do!

My passion is ...

working with children

I know too much about ...

horses

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I wanted

My childhood ambition ...

to be a veterinarian

My favorite memory ...

the first time I went over a fence on a horse

Why I write ...

because I can't not write

My first job ...

Dishwasher

My best moment ...

getting my masters degree

My inspiration ...

so, so many things

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Worry

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I keep rolling the word over and over again in my head, testing it out, seeing if I can make it real and less terrifying. Biopsy. How can one word hit you so hard? How can six letters, put together, form a word that so deeply terrifies? All the logic in the world can't make me feel better about that word. I can tell myself, repeatedly, that it is so extremely unlikely that this dreaded word will yield anything bad. All the repeating in the world can't eliminate the word biopsy and its fear-inducing properties from my mind. Biopsy leads to another scary word: cancer. That word won't stop re...

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