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CHAPTER THREE - A secretA Chapter by Elise AntonI was there yet without warning everything was displaced around me. Perhaps the ambience, the season, the familiar act... Somehow I was transporte.. |
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CHAPTER FOUR - Father, mother, othersA Chapter by Elise AntonMy mother found inner strength late in life. Back then, ever at the mercy of my father, living in constant fear of his hostility. His bouts of rag.. |
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CHAPTER FIVE - Dreams and NightmaresA Chapter by Elise AntonAt seventeen I too dared to pursue a passion. My art deemed impressive in High School, hanging in corridors - some better pieces taken home by the.. |
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CHAPTER SIX More secrets...A Chapter by Elise AntonMy father failed me again a second time, when I was ten. The first house our family rented after many months sharing with other migrant families. .. |
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CHAPTER SEVEN Violence and retaliationA Chapter by Elise AntonThe fateful day came when my father shoved my mother, and she fell on the back steps, fracturing two vertebrae in her back. I didn't witness this .. |
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CHAPTER EIGHT ReconnectionA Chapter by Elise AntonWilliam always returned, filling the vacuum whenever I discarded a new diversion. A given he would emerge, monopolise my thoughts and punch the ke.. |
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CHAPTER NINE The PrinceA Chapter by Elise AntonWhen the blue-eyed Prince arrived, whisking me off my not-so grounded feet, I perversely hoped. I counted on him being the one to topple William. .. |
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CHAPTER TEN Dancing for my motherA Chapter by Elise AntonWilliam the only one enabling me to draw full breath, his presence even though brief and even if sometimes only on paper, providing the much neede.. |
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CHAPTER ELEVEN Goodbyes and MiraclesA Chapter by Elise AntonI married the first time at twenty four, presumably to escape, only in the process, I discovered in my husband a younger version of my father. So .. |
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CHAPTER TWELVE The old man and the machinesA Chapter by Elise AntonBack when the boys were little, the struggle to provide for them within the cliché of a single mum? Their father too bloody sick to contribut.. |
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN Danger, dangerA Chapter by Elise AntonAstounding, my survival those first years after the devastation. Alone with my secrets; resisting to the constant pressing need to smash my old ca.. |
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN Words and MailboxesA Chapter by Elise AntonCame the day I picked up a pen and once again wrote down those few lines memorised. Only this time, more words appeared on the paper! "So young .. |
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN A new QueenA Chapter by Elise AntonWhen I decided to finally meet William again? No tangible certainty he was alive. The only evidence a photo on the internet, several years old. I .. |
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN Surrendering and never findingA Chapter by Elise AntonFunny. I surrendered my virginity to a beautiful boy when I was seventeen. Part French, he fed me strawberries, sitting at the kitchen table in ma.. |
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The Fear I have in RecitingA Poem by Ms. TwitchYou're making me check my words twicemaking sure they are perfectly in place.Feeling what I've numbed myself toconversations that never went beyond th.. |
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No Room For Empty FeelingsA Poem by AspiringthinkerI have written this piece 6 years ago, a few of my friends recommended that I publish these, so here it is. |
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Broken realityA Poem by KiraI foresaw the upcoming suffer that I will take, but I accused this anticipation with lies and sorcery, thinking the suffer I went through was enough.. |
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The scarred vileA Poem by KiraHis steps made scarred marks in my soul and mind, creating suffocating speculations, crippling my weak mind and making my heart sore. The echoes of .. |
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