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I was Once a Drug Lord
Read Time: 6 mins | Live on MasticadoresIndia “Hi Jimmy.” Her voice rang in my one good ear. Sweet Jesus, she had seen me, and there was no avoiding her now. I waved and walked to her counter. “I came to renew my license.” “You could have done it online, Jimmy.” Charmaine peered at me… Continue reading
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The Place of The Seven Cotton Trees – Pt. One
Read Time: 5 Mins | Historical Fiction | Romance | Drama | Part One My father says I have the temperament of a bull elephant who has lost the love of his life. I have never quite understood what he meant, for I am neither the size of a bull nor do I look like… Continue reading
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The Girl from Southall is now live on MasticadoresIndia
The Girl From Southall “Ignorance is an incredibly confident state of delusion. It is a lesson I need to learn.” I was scolding myself on my way home. I had been naïve. And my shallow, limited, immature view of people had exposed me to a very harsh reality. I guess the speed of globalization had… Continue reading
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Hatred Unlearned
Last Saturday, I was driving past the synagogue on my way home from my morning run. There was an armed guard, helping the older residents of the neighborhood coming to worship cross the road. This armed guard was always a weird sight. There was the pleasant wave of familiar strangers, but the imagery still provoked… Continue reading
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Event Horizons
Impossible to find a loving estate, From someone who only knows rage She still lives within her trauma The child, the teen, the adult, only knows drama With enough time the scars mend Another failed bond, a memory to tend In the museum of shattered dreams I call my head, Regret lingers, repressed dread. There’s… Continue reading
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Happiness Project- book launch
Last Summer, my dear friend, author Vanesa Pizzuto, recommended me to an editor in Europe who was working on an anthology. She probably oversold my talent, but I never say no to an opportunity to develop and share my love of writing. But this project felt heavy, as though there was a burden of expectancy… Continue reading
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The Singularity
Art © Johnathan Mc Daniels, used with permission. When the world goes crazy, and attacks everything that is sacred to me Like cracks on the wall that threaten our structural integrity Here, no matter the where or the when, we can suspend and defy, for this is our singularity For my family, and all that… Continue reading
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Muted
I’ve given up on life so many times that my dreams have become my safe haven. Darkness in my eyes and my soul, inside I’m the color of the ravens I put the pen to these lines and they’re always apocalyptic If life was measured in rhymes, not pennies and dimes, I’d be the Midas… Continue reading
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Cupid took me for a ride.
They say that real love is blind But it don’t make sense to me. Everyday when I unwind, I replay all these vivid memories They’ve fermented with time In this mental distillery. I heard letting go is sublime But it feels a lot like a lobotomy You say that I whine I say am deconstructing… Continue reading
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The Angel on Broadway now on MasticadoresIndia
“Oy! You hold ya horses now.” She shouted at the driver while standing in the doorway to the bus. I ran, half asleep, dropping my half-eaten packet of chocolate digestives. I didn’t care. I grabbed a seat and promptly tried to get back into that napping phase like a lazy alligator. “Simpletons. Every one of… Continue reading
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