Category: Creative Writing
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

I Made It to 42. That sentence alone deserves a standing ovation, a moment of stillness and all of the accolades and bougie snacks. Not because I thought I wouldn’t make it—but because there were seasons when I didn’t want to. Moments when the weight of disappointment, grief, fear, and survival felt louder than joy.…
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Rest Easy Grandpa

My grandpa died on May 18th, 2025. He was 99 years old. He would have turned 100 on August 31. My grandpa died and I don’t know how I Feel. Well…no…it’s more like I feel so many things. I feel so angry that I didn’t come out here when I first had the inkling. I…
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Let’s Chat: Perspective
Where the Storms Find Me Let’s talk about how everywhere I want to be, there is a storm. I wanted to be in Payson, sitting quietly at the lake. Rain. Not necessarily a storm, but cloudy and rainy nonetheless. I headed up to Sedona-beautiful, sacred, healing Sedona-and was greeted by a windstorm. Not necessarily a…
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Vallon*

Chapter 1 She still wasn’t sure why the hell she was still following this trail. She laughed knowing that wasn’t 100% truth. Truth is…..ever since she saw it thru the trees she hasn’t been able to think of much else. She’d tried everything she could think of and nothing worked. The curiosity was slowly driving…
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Leave Me Alone

I be at the crib big chilling on my on. Mostly killing time by doom scrolling on my phone. People call, people text, i decline like im not home. Switch my phone to d and d. All yall leave me alone. Replenishing my energy. Recharging all my batteries. The social butterfly aura I exude Dont…
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My name is Romneka and this is the story of my career

Hi. My name is Romneka Guion and this is the story of my career. I graduated HS in 2001, Top 30 of my class out of 300. I got accepted in a full academic scholarship program to Norfolk State University where I majored in Computer Science and Minored in Applied Mathematics until 2004 when I…



