Anxiety is the root of many fears, but sometimes it can be our bodies telling us what's really out there. When life gives you lemons, you never know what you're going to get. You may have a light tap on the shoulder from a ghost or two... maybe a whisper against your ear, or just an ominous weight across your shoulders that disappears when you turn to see what's there.. You may get dragged through darkness into a whole other world. Interesting how that works.

Shortly after the death of his best friend Bob, Paul René is surprised by a visit from a mysterious woman he has never met before. This woman tells him who he really is and reveals his true identity. She claims to know everything about Paul and offers to help him find the assassin who killed his friend. But is it true...does she know everything? To discover it, Paul embarks on a series of adventures and meets friends and enemies who help him in his quest to find Bob's killer. Who is the savage assassin who murdered a poor innocent without using a weapon? Are there links to the dark and terrible secrets Paul's family has been hiding for generations? Thanks @scmimi for this beautiful cover! #TheDivineAwards2020 #projectdivine #thewildflowerawards #slinkawards2020

I should have wore my seatbelt that day. I knew I should have. You know that small voice in the back of your head nagging you to do something? That annoyingly but always right voice that puts pits of guilt in your mind if you don't do what it says? It told me to put my seatbelt on but of course, like always I didn't listen to it... But, I should have. As I watch the tear stained cheeks of everyone that I care about and even some I don't, bury my now lifeless body, I regret it more then ever... Except him. He knows. He can see me. And he is determined more then ever to save me. He wants me to find peace. He even demands it, he wants to make me face my inner demons. After all, he is the very reason I was in the car in the first place. Francesca Atles always thought that the world owed her something. She was desperately searching for something to mean something to her, for her life to matter. After her mothers horrific departure from life, Frannie was convinced that she had completely lost everything; until she really does lose everything. Fighting to stay apart of this life and the next, she must overcome the compelling hold the other side has on her and the consequential destructive bond she has with the boy still alive.

"I let her go because I knew she could do better. And now she's gone. I wonder if I should've just been better."

"𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦. 𝐈𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦." ... /// Set in 1870's Paris, France, Christine Daaé, an orphaned ballerina, befriends a strange angel who coaches her voice until the age of twenty, when she replaces the Prima Donna in the production of Hannibal. In the midst of her success an old flame is rekindled while her devotion to her angel of music seizes romantic possibility. Christine must soon choose between two very different worlds-one of leisure and riches and one of passion and diversity. /// ... This retelling of The Phantom of the Opera is inspired by some true historical events and characters as well as themes from the 1946 film, La Belle et La Bete(Beauty and the Beast), the Gaston Learoux novel, Phantom by Arthur Kopit, and Andrew Lloyd's Phantom of the Opera.

"I'm trying to complete my moms summer list from when she was in high school," I explain, and Ace snatches the paper out of my hand. I reach for it, but he holds it high above his head so I can't. I huff and cross my arms. His eyes scan the page and his lips purse. "Dev, everything on here is lame. Nothing requires actual adventure," he says, and I scoff. "What do you propose I do about that?" I snap, my lips curved into a smirk. Ace sighs and hands me back the paper. "I'll complete this list with you so aren't the loser doing it by yourself." He then comes closer to me so our faces are only inches apart and he continues, his voice husky. "But only if I get to pick what we do first."

Poems about raw feelings that aren't very easy for me to be honest about in my life.