Blog Manifesto

Blog Manifesto


This blog is dedicated, as the title would suggest, to the qualities of being young. We are young writers. We are playful and sensitive, fluid and changing. We are unashamed with our art. We wonder at the world, puzzle over the meanings of things and twirl in delight at images and ideas that float by, grabbing at them as they pass. We are curious and constantly inquiring and prying concepts open and taking assumptions apart. We are on the ground, close to the earth. We have bare feet and wiggle our toes into nature. We carry our blankies still and wrap up cozy and comfy with each other and tell ghost stories and shiver at creepy things. We laugh and we cry and we take a lot of naps, drained from our outings and exertions.

We write as gifts to each other, tying them up in ribbon and leaving them around for each other to find, hiding and waiting for the person to wake up and read. Surprise! We weave our stories together to create a bond. One writes, then the other. then another again. We have a shared reality that we have crafted, bit by piece by patch, by string. We write simple, honest authentic things, with our unique voices. You can tell each one of us from the other, without knowing who wrote what. Our voices are clear and gentle and original. We whisper and our personalities roar! Like children, our feelings are strong, our passion for what we write shakes us. We are moved and sometimes left breathless, by our own words or the words of each other. We cannonball into each others spaces. We fall backward into each others writing, like into a pile of leaves or a soft bed. We gobble and grin and ask for more. (footnote kudos to JC)

Then we go to bed, wake up to a new day and do it all over again!

Friday, February 17, 2012

{[ Ghost Story ]}

(Based on a true story in my life)




      

It was a night like any other with that group of friends some ten years ago.
Just a group of wild teen kids riding around on a back country road being
dareless drinking, driving, and smokin. She was always the old ball of the
group. Never quiet fit in. Would take a sip here or there but was more fond
of just the cold air breeze coming in threw the window of the car. Cigerette
smoke choaking her up from the front seat friends. Her heart pounded in
her chest as she slipped the seat belt over her waist. Cars..she never was
fond of them.

Josh was sitting there beside her half passed out..his fingers slowly worming
there way tward her leg. She was quick to slap his hand away. Drunkin stuper
snapped back at her as she riggled in her seat. "Fkin bishh."  "Hey Michelle..
go thata way." Holding his beer out of the window pointing to the left. All the
while she really just wanted to go home..away from this..and him. He was a
horrible person. Thought he was gods gift on earth. She remembered that time
when he made a friend of his get down on his knees infront of everyone and kiss
his feet..he thought he was royalty just because he was from England.


Hands crossed tightly across her chest with eyes tight shut he kept on..bothering
her. She thought to herself she shouldn't had even came. Car racing faster around
dark and twisted road till it came to the left. Michelle turing her head looking off
into the distance instead of straight ahead like she should. Then there it was..
Michelle floored the breaks. A noose...just floating in the center of the road. Sudden
chills rushed down her body as she slipped down in the seat to look past the front
seats of the car. "Is that..a..?"  Michelle answered before she could even finish the
sentence. "Uhuh."

It wasn't possible. She didn't believe in that silly nonsence. She closed her eyes and
reopened them again with a quick blink. It still..there. Just..floating in the center of
the road at three o' clock in the morning. "Leavee..leave Michelle. This is just
creeping me the fk out." Quickly Michelle grabbed her drink and took a swig, shivering
while the harsh shot rushed down her throat. Car back in gear she took a quick right
into a lone farm house driveway. A slow rush of sighs letting out from breath as Michelle
backed up turning the car back tward home.

She quickly tilted her head forward to see if they were going to pass the possible
halutiation up. Looking all around not seeing it anymore. "Wha..?" Was it all just
a drunken stuper..or was it real." Guess she will never know.

-Fin-

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