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What's Your Poison?

Coping has many flavors but one directive

Sorrow eats the worm at the bottom of the bottle with a kind of parasitic fermentation that now poisons the mind into thinking they are free that they have control over their life that they are whole as long as they keep drinking as long as they keep drin...

The Whacking of the Trees

It was all she could do for her heart and her soul

  Whack!  Whack! There was a long pause and then, once again... Whack! She tossed the fallen limb down onto the forest floor beside the trail. It had served its purpose. Then she nodded at the hikers who were passing hesitantly by her along the pathway. ...

Mama Didn’t Show Me How to Cope - Chapter 1

How much can one write if their memories are a single blur?

I had about five minutes to think this over. Picture this: I’m sitting in the bathroom taking a dump, I have a case of diarrhea and stomach cramping due to having a stomach infection that occurred right after I returned from my trip to Mexico during sprin...

Mama Didn’t Show Me How to Cope

How much can one write if their memories are a single blur?

I.Depression /dəˈpreSH(ə)n/ noun A mental condition characterized by feelings of severe despondency and dejection, typically also with feelings of inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy and disturbance of appetite and sleep. This is jus...

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We Three

A short, one act play

Characters: ELLE - Middle-aged, dishevelled, wearing nightclothes. BETH - Indeterminate age, smartly dressed in casual attire. LISA - Twenty-something, short dress, heels, make-up. WAITER - Young, handsome male. Staging notes :‘Black box’ stage, plain bla...

Life...

you always have to be open and ready....

A series of random events, compiled to either make or break the person subjected to their existence. Some events I'm convinced we all have to go through, in order to test our coping and adaptability skills we all need to make it here on this plane of exis...