If you're just tuning in now, here are the previous excerpts from Beyond the Cover, for your enjoyment: Beyond the Cover IntroductionPast (1/6) - optionalNuts for Coco (2/6)Present (3/6) - optionalEscape (4/6)Future (5/6) - optional I thought my parents understood that I wasn’t ready. I was about to be wed with a complete stranger. It was not... Continue Reading →
Escape (4/6 Excerpt from Beyond the Cover)
In case you missed the following links: Beyond the Cover IntroductionPast (1/6) - optionalNuts for Coco (2/6)Present (3/6) - optional No SleepoversNo Play datesNo PlaysNo TVNo GamesNo musical instrument other than the violin or piano No, No, No. Rule after rule after rule. I’m fed up with it. It’s my senior year in high school and I... Continue Reading →
Nuts for Coco (2/6 Excerpt from Beyond the Cover)
Beyond the Cover IntroductionPast (1/6) (Optional) Every day is the same. Me and Brother wake up and walk 45 minutes to the coconut trees just outside the village where I live. That is where the better and bigger coconuts are. Papa follows 5 minutes later. Brother says, “When you are 8, we can go together without... Continue Reading →
Story Time: About a Girl, Part 3
PART ONE & PART TWO why me.......... why me? Sitting in my room with the door closed. Staring down at a piece of paper with questions and blank spaces and a mechanical pencil at hand. Looking through the book for answers. I hate this. The pain increases by the minute. why must I suffer? Sharpness... Continue Reading →
Story Time: About a Girl, Part 2
Click here for Part One. “She needs a neck brace.”“She will be fine without a neck brace.”“I demand you give her a neck brace, even if it’s just a soft collar!” A week finally passed and I was released to go home. I remember it clearly . . . well, almost clearly . . . I... Continue Reading →
Story Time: About a Girl
It was October 2005, the primary physician told her she was crazy. “It’s all in your head. There’s nothing wrong with you.” The pain on the right side of her neck was progressing. My neck hurts. What’s wrong with me? Complaint after complaint after complaint. Her mother searched high and low for a doctor. For... Continue Reading →
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