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I Did A Thing!

Stupidly, I was discussing book covers with another author, saying that I prefer people on covers rather than the boring, non-peopled covers, and yet readers prefer non-peopled ones (the author mentioned had done a poll asking a FB group of

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What can break or heal your heart? BOOKS!

Life update first: No fainting in the tram this week, guys, and no flu, so good times πŸ™‚ I went to the dentist yesterday, though. Him: “If your tooth hurts longer than two weeks, call. Don’t wait a month.” OR

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Inside the Crazy

I hate these f*cking mental health posts because I’m living it (OCD, anxiety disorder / high-functioning anxiety, symptoms of bipolar, although the TF knows what the current diagnosis would be), but others want to know what it’s like. So. You

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Am I in a Freaking Book?

I feel like I stepped into the bad plot of a book. Here is what 2023 did to me before it ended: Less than a week before Christmas, my job told me they were firing me, intending to end my

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“Kneel.”

They never come to kill me, no matter how potently they yearn to. The assassin kneeling behind me reeks of it: the craving to end me. He clamps the fury inside his fists; the animosity burns beneath his shadowed hood,

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Then Keep Me (reposted)

He arrived in the middle of the night, banging on their door in the midst of a raging storm. Windy gusts lashed the windows, tree branches scraping the panes. It brought her and her parents barefoot down the creaking stairs,

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In the Lush Decay of Her Bedchamber

WHY AM I LIKE THIS? I sent a newsletter about a Thing, and let’s now play SPOT THE TYPO! PROOF that I ‘beed’ a break for sure. And I sent like fifty million test emails to myself and STILL didn’t

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5:40am

It’s 5:40AM. I’m woken by the door buzzer ringing. Zulejka shoots into hiding (as cats do). I sit up in bed, groggy. Damn alcohol-infested jerks! I lie back down. I live above a pub; sometimes revelers decide it’s time to

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So. My Ex Called Me Last Night…

And he said: “I just took a p!ss in the pub you live above.” Me, thinking a million things but only saying: You’re here? Downstairs? Him: I’m waiting for the bus at the bus stop in front of your place.

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Trapped in the Goblin Realm…

NOTE: AI images were used in this blog post, but I no longer support the use of AI, nor do I use it, because I don’t like the extractive direction big corporations are taking it and how they are trying

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Sonya Lano

When I was twenty-two, I ran away to Prague, where I now sing to my black cat (who collects dustballs in her whiskers), eat chocolate for breakfast, and have lemon tarts every Thursday.

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