: About Me

Hi everyone! My name is Raydia Osborne and I am a 20 year old student at Emory University. I'm an English major and I have a passion for writing. I love creating images. I love giving characters voices. I love constructing sentences. This is what I was made to do.

Some of my other interests include reading, singing, going to the mall, going to the movies(just about every other weekend) and traveling.

My passion is ...

writing, writing, writing.

My parents always told me ...

I'll be able to buy that for you soon. Just wait. Just wait. One of the reasons I do what I do.

My childhood ambition ...

was to laugh.

Why I write ...

because God wants to use the gift he's given me to change people's lives.

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

im watching the NBA. Do you read or listen to music during the finals? lol

My first job ...

was as a camp counselor for a childrens day care.

My inspiration ...

My mother. The perfect wife and mother.

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Desperation

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I am a wretch, a man with shriveled and wrinkled skin, hunched over and shrouded in a cloak, my only possession. My blood is cold; my breath is shallow; my eyes are dry and heavy, deeply sunken into a skull that feels too heavy and probably looks too large for the rest of my feeble body. I have no strength except what is needed to shuffle from spot to spot. Not from place to place. There are no places here. Just vast darkness. It is a thick black darkness. No. Darker than black. It’s not the absorption of all colors but a color that sucks in and destroys all colors. A color that reac...

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