A Girl Can Dream

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If I could choose

what character I would want to be

from my favorite, movie, book ( or song )

I would want to be the shadow on the wall

the monster under the bed

the thing in the closet

the bones stashed in a trunk, sealed with chain and barbed wire, hidden in the attic

I would want to be the corpse in the basement, buried under stale and sour earth.

If I could choose

what character I would want to be

from my favorite, movie, book ( or song )

I would want to be that thing that makes your skin crawl.

Is Anybody Home?

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By Irina Shamaeva

I just wanted to pop in and say

yes this blog is still live, but I’ve been busy with the move at work

and I’ve been busy, busy, busy.

So don’t forget I’m here and I PROMISE to get back to work

ASAP.

Anita

I Literally Died

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I have a love/ hate relationship with the word literally.

When most people use it ( yeah, except for YOU smarty pants ) they say things like, ” it was so funny/weird/stupid  that I LITERALLY died.

Saying you ‘literally died ‘ means exactly that- you heard something so funny/weird/stupid  that  it killed you and because of that you end up in a cooling unit in a morgue and then a funeral home and you were embalmed or cremated or set out in  the elements in a body farm where Forensic Anthropologists study the death process.

On one hand, it makes me cringe when the word ‘literally’ is misused.

On  the other hand- the image that pops into my head when someone says, ” I literally died ” amuses me- a lot.

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Saint Mary’s Cemetery
Fox Lake, Wisconsin
October 2024

Goodbye Basement Ghost

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The company I work for is in the process of changing our location and considering the Company has been in the same building for 100 years ( yes really ) I have been pretty busy packing and moving my department ( oh the perks of being a manager )

The thing of it is, I work in the part of the building that is old, it’s walls are brick, it’s below street level so it’s like working in a catacomb.

Plus it’s haunted by a guy in a blue work shirt that has shown up in moments of high drama ( like the Nisqually Earthquake.

I’m feeling challenged because I know this space has inspired my writing.

And I am wondering if this move will change the flavor in my stories.

God, I hope it doesn’t.

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