Wendy Blacke

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  • Creative Writing,  Short Stories

    The Greatest Show Unearthed

    Wendy Blacke / May 1, 2020 / 1 Comment

    I was walking down Hamilton Street, on my way to work, when a beetle the size of a fist scurried across my path. I leapt with a shriek at its appearance. It had…

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  • Journal,  Memoir,  Mental Health,  Thoughts & Musings

    My Relationship With Depression and Creativity

    Wendy Blacke / April 28, 2020 / 4 Comments

    I have PTSD and major depressive disorder. Whether the former is responsible for the latter I may never know, because depression also runs in my family, and so it might have become a…

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  • Creative Writing,  Short Stories

    Room 19

    Wendy Blacke / April 27, 2020 / 0 Comments

    These walls. These familiar walls. Names and dates scrawled over every inch. Geometric patterns scratched anxiously into the light blue paint, mathematical equations he couldn’t understand. This graffiti meant nothing to Allen. It…

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  • Creative Writing,  Non-Fiction,  Thoughts & Musings

    The Waiting Room

    Wendy Blacke / April 27, 2020 / 4 Comments

    Life is a waiting room. We wait. We wait in line. We wait in cars and on buses and planes. We wait for phone calls and mail deliveries. We wait for appointments, promotions,…

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  • Creative Writing,  Non-Fiction,  Thoughts & Musings,  Uncategorized

    Living in the Age of Distractions

    Wendy Blacke / April 27, 2020 / 0 Comments

    We live in a fascinating era. We’re in the age of intangibility, of information, of personal branding. We have apps for everything: finance, social media, productivity, meditation, and travel. We even have apps…

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  • Creative Writing,  Short Stories

    Waste

    Wendy Blacke / April 25, 2020 / 1 Comment

    “Nobody’s seen The Smiths for weeks,” Jon told Rich on their walk home from school. “My mom said they moved, but at night I can see blue flickering, like a TV is on…

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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
tagged: 2021-tbr and currently-reading
Dragonfly in Amber
Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon
tagged: currently-reading

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