NJ

Joined March 2021

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A creative soul at heart. Truth, love and compassion influence my creativity in the form of writing, painting, and living life.

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Runner-Up in Critique Challenge

Stories (36/0)

Happy Times. Top Story - May 2024.
Along the roads in Gujarat. Our driver was taking us from Talgajada to the airport in Diu, a port side sea town. The roads sometimes smoothly paved from recent construction, to potholes, and then just chaos with road re-routes. But we stopped along the way to roadside bathrooms with food stalls, and also tea stalls.
By NJabout a month ago in Wander
Black Circles
Every night I wait for you. Closing up, elegantly in line. Lighting up my life with a black lit circle Inside it is the black moon.
By NJ2 months ago in Poets
The Grilled Cheese
Thoughts of melted cheese Image the crunch of potato chips Along with pangs of hunger With friends Ketchup slathered on the inside
By NJ3 months ago in Poets
To Write
To write consistently. Or not. That is a constant unconscious question that has appeared over and over again in my life. The intent has always been there, but the action perhaps lacking as life got in the way. What did this include you ask. Well, from work, family and friends, the pandemic, travel and the comings and goings of life in itself. Time just flew by.
By NJ5 months ago in Confessions
Who are you?. Top Story - December 2023.
I stare into the gilded mirror. And you stare back. Who are you? That unknown stranger looking back at me blinks her eyes. She doesn’t recognize me.
By NJ7 months ago in Motivation
I Confess. Top Story - March 2024.
Where do I begin, but with an apology if I was not the daughter you had hoped for or wanted me to be. Then you sent a birthday card.
By NJ7 months ago in Poets
The Sands of Wadi Rum
Mom was waiting. Patiently for me. Sitting on a seat with her luggage in arrivals at Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA). Her plane arrived before mine. She had been there for hours. An earlier flight was more economical. And so there she would be hanging out at an airport in Jordan, waiting in faith for her daughter’s safe and timely arrival.
By NJ7 months ago in Wander
rosa
red luscious velvety to the touch in my garden smooth touch pluck from your plant to my fingers gently rub you rose
By NJ7 months ago in Poets
father figure
Father. Who are you? Where are you? You died when I was five. It left a hole. In my life. It pierced my heart I wish you were still alive.
By NJ7 months ago in Poets
Cinnamon, Cloves and Cider
Our coven Brew starts with a Shrew. Cinnamon cinders. Circinate cloves. Cold cider. The coven cried out the three C potion: Cinnamon, cloves and cider.
By NJ8 months ago in Fiction
You Don't Live Here Anymore
A dust-filled fall day. Was it a misalignment from the universe, as rays of sun shone brilliantly through tree branches. A mound of red, yellow, and burnt-orange was swept under the porch steps. A few dry leaves remained lingering on the ground. A few were crushed under the weight of a metal rake.
By NJ8 months ago in Fiction
Campbell's Soup Cans. Runner-Up in Critique Challenge.
Soup of the day. Andy Warhol's thirty-two cans of Cambell's soup were originally displayed in 1962. It is an artisanal simulation of mass production at its best in a consumer world. Seen as a rip-off of known objects and products. It's just soup in a can after all. Nothing else.
By NJ10 months ago in Critique

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Black Circles

The Grilled Cheese

To Write

Who are you?. Top Story - December 2023.

I Confess. Top Story - March 2024.

The Sands of Wadi Rum

rosa

father figure

Cinnamon, Cloves and Cider

You Don't Live Here Anymore

Campbell's Soup Cans. Runner-Up in Critique Challenge.

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Happy Times. Top Story - May 2024.