I’m an Amazon built from the bones of my own broken body sometimes I can’t speak but for screaming a gaping wound for a mouth that calls for war thorns knot in my gut until iron-stained salt coats my lips a reddened smile that used to beg but now only bites the talons of myContinueContinue reading “The Legend of Diana”
Author Archives: Ren Martinez
The Mental State of a Continually Rejected Writer
Good news: I’m sending out more query letters than ever before.Bad news: I’m getting rejections faster and faster.I’m not naive; I recognize that I’m going to be rejected a hundred times over before I receive my first “yes.” I’ve read the tales of respected authors gritting through the pile of rejection letters and writing anyway,ContinueContinue reading “The Mental State of a Continually Rejected Writer”
Gravity
My boyfriend’s father died today.I’m halfway across the country and it might as well be a universe.I was looking up flights out even before I answered the call. But when I asked, he told me no. He said that there were plenty of people there to support him. That the 140 character text messages wereContinueContinue reading “Gravity”
To Those Who Hate My Mother For Her Choice
I am the child that was never borna fledgling bird nestled in the egg of my mother’s wombwhose flight feathers hadn’t even grown in before I was returned to the earthmy mother’s choice had me fading back into the skythe carbon of my cells once more turned into starsbones exhaled into the wind that driedContinueContinue reading “To Those Who Hate My Mother For Her Choice”
Should I Stay (Or Should I Run?)
It feels like I’ve been treading water in the sea of a quarter-life crisis for two years now. Desperate to keep my chin above water, but oh so curious to see what lays beneath the surface, a grand vastness that holds too many possibilities to fathom. But, neither do I swim to shore, the safetyContinueContinue reading “Should I Stay (Or Should I Run?)”
Another Year Over (A New One’s Just Begun)
For the upcoming New Year, it is traditional to come up with a set of resolutions, and it is even more traditional to ignore them after the first few weeks of January. I decided to compose my own list of actually achievable goals (and no, weight loss is not one of them). 1. Enjoy moreContinueContinue reading “Another Year Over (A New One’s Just Begun)”
When Giving Up is Getting It Right
My life has been one upheaval after another these last two and a half months. Learning a new city, a new house, and accepting two new jobs almost entirely at the same time. On top of that, those two jobs coincided with the beginning of November, which I decided in a fit of insanity toContinueContinue reading “When Giving Up is Getting It Right”
An Unwilling Addict
Sometimes, I wonder if I was meant to be a writer.There are days like today when I sit down in front of my computer, staring at the blank cage, fingers hovering over the keys, and there’s nothing. No flutter in the back of my mind, no knotting in my gut, no tingle that runs throughContinueContinue reading “An Unwilling Addict”
If Marriage Isn’t For Me, Whose Is It?
My response to this article, Marriage Isn’t For You (also seen on Tumblr & Minus The Box)”You don’t marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy”I’ve heard many things about love. How it’s a many-splendored thing, some twisting miasma of color and light that seems to reside between the spaces of our ventricles andContinueContinue reading “If Marriage Isn’t For Me, Whose Is It?”
Fond Farewell to Food Service
Yesterday, I put in my two weeks notice at Little India.This came on the heels of a second job proposal, a 20-hour overnight position that fits in perfectly with my first job. That being said, it’s insanity to work about 50 hours a week and try to be a waitress/delivery driver. I’ll be working twoContinueContinue reading “Fond Farewell to Food Service”
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