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Friday’s Five!
Mood in a word: happy!
Book you’re reading: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. Inching along.
Looking…
The Spoken Word is My World
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Silencing My Own Voice
I’ve always strived to control my writing. I wanted my writing to say exactly what I wanted to say–nothing more, nothing less. The more concise my words were, the better I would feel about myself. I did not want to be the Anne Shirley of my companions any…
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A Memory
One Eid last year, my uncle was able to help save someone’s life.
She was young, around twenty-five, and she got onto his taxi. Somewhere along the way to her desired destination, a subway station, she asked him if she could confide in him; it was…
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Friday’s Five!
1. Mood in a word: excited!
2. Book you’re reading: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter! I also read The…
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During storms, Facebook should just separate status updates between people who love thunder and lightening and people who just peed in their pants.
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‘It’s just a treehouse,’ they say. Anyone can make one, they say.
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I realized that I cannot hold conversation with today’s mortals. I haven’t kept up with the Kardashians, so we have no common ground.
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After I spoke, no one else did, not because they agreed with my statements, but because, in order to speak up, they would have to look me in the eye. I faked my bravery, jutting my chin and daring someone to contradict me. I am glad no one else could hear the blood pounding in my ear as my heart worried, Fight or flight? Fight or flight?
Majoring in English,
http://thefeministwire.com/2013/03/majoring-in-english/
(Source: spokenworlds)
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
I have to say this one fits right in.
(Source: cartographe, via e-picurean-deactivated20130508)
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when honesty
conquers clever retorts
witty comebacks
and lies on replay
I will take my place
in society
and I might consider
following its ways
(Source: spokenworlds)
