Chris Tilley About Me Page at Helium

I am a fledgling writer attempting to make a start. I hope you enjoy my work.

My passion is ...

fiction

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

shush

My childhood ambition ...

to be a pilot

My favorite memory ...

Homecoming

Why I write ...

to heal, steal, and appeal.

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

30 seconds to Mars

My first job ...

Brick Mason's Laborer

My best moment ...

A finished novel (yet to come)

My inspiration ...

My family

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: How my garden helped me learn about love or survive its loss: 22 of 31

Breaking up is hard to do, especially after fourteen months of an intense and torrid love affair. Easily done with gardening is an impossible statement. But when you have transformed a space into a magical garden and shown your former lover the product of her year of love, its effects upon you, and the change she or he has made, the journey is worth the smile. In the span of losing the single greatest love of my life, I took an empty negative space that was more than an eyesore but a black hole in the apartment yard and made it into something beautiful. And I did even show my inspiration t...
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