: About Me

My passion is ...

Painting is still a passion for me not a hobby.

I know too much about ...

Vampire literature and films

My parents always told me ...

Money makes the world turn, but happiness is free.

My childhood ambition ...

Artist

My favorite memory ...

The birth of my two children.

Why I write ...

For me writing is a way of relating to my imagination. I have always written in my head, books or poetry, now I actually write things down.

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

The Sex Pistols, Heroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer anything my kids watch and listen to.

My first job ...

Sales Assistant and I loved it.

My best moment ...

Graduating university at 37 with a 2.1 BA (hons) in English.

My inspiration ...

My husband

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Anticipation

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Modern Love Once you wrote me a lurid love letter and our distance didn't matter. Images of seduction lived inside my head wildly wicked words, warmed my lonely bed. Once the phone became my lover's midnight touch and the time apart didn't mean too much. Whispered words graphically, explicitly told of all the things you'd do to save me from the cold. Now you're here with me, your warm body in my bed, journey's end, it took me where your imagination led. Silently, without thinking I slip away from you, shame the things you wrote and said are better than you do!

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