Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns
Bio
"I was always an unusual girl
My mother told me that I had a chameleon soul
No moral compass pointing due north
No fixed personality...
...With a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom"
-Lana Del Ray
Ride
Stories (42/0)
Crystallised
I can smell the snow hours before it breaks free from the clouds. I always know when it is going to snow. My mother said there was a touch of the fae in our family, and feeling the snow was part of this fae magic. It was this feeling that had me walking through the silence of the village in which I lived at 3am on Christmas morning.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns2 months ago in Fiction
Music That Moves My Bipolar Soul and The Playlist That Steadies The Pendulum
I have always loved music. My Mother likes to say that I could sing before I could talk and my daughter Rosaleen inherited that from me. Long before she could string a coherent sentence together she could sing the full score from Frozen. In my day it was Snow White. Rosaleen is like me in so many ways. She looks just like me when I was her age. She has my eyes, my nose and my whacky hairline with blonde curls that can't choose any kind of direction to fall in.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Psyche
The Witch's Familiar
**Warning, many, many cat pictures ahead** I keep joking that when I answer the phone from now on I'm going to say, 'Hello Clara's Supernatural hotline, how can I help? Press 1, for ghosts, ghouls and poltergeists. Press 2, for any and all demonic activity up to and including possessions. Press 3, for general enquires, and 4 for anything else. If you require a love potion please hang-up.'
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Petlife
Naked Nightmare Becomes Reality
We've all had that nightmare. The one where you walk into your classroom and everyone starts to laugh because for some ungodly reason you've come to school totally naked, not even a sock to your name. Then we wake up in our cosy beds, sighing with great relief because it was only a nightmare. Yeah well my nightmare became a big old dose of reality when I found myself butt naked in front of about 20 of my peers from school.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Confessions
Move Over Enola Holmes, There's a New Sherlock Craze In Town
I love Sherlock Holmes. Not just the Benedict Cumberbatch incarnation, though let's be honest it is amazing, but everything about the character, the stories, his relationship with Dr Watson, everything.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Geeks
Me, Myself and I...and The Other Six
Most people who have Disassociative Identity Disorder, are just like everyone else. Is that a shocking statement? It shouldn't be but because of the way we are usually portrayed in the media, those of us who have a diagnosis of DID are perceived as deranged psychopaths who have other personalities that pop out every now and again completely unbeknownst to us and go on a what is for that particular personality, a demented little killing spree.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Psyche
Vocal+ Goals
I've always believed that setting goals is important. In January 2021, I set myself 3 goals for my written work on Vocal+ and in the last week, I've completed all of them much to my astonishment and delight. The emotions that I felt at having completed these goals before we're even halfway through the year lead me to the decision that I wanted to set myself a few more. I don't believe that there is anything wrong with a little bit of healthy ambition as long as one knows how to stave off complete disappointment when things don't quite go as planned.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Journal
Co-Parenting: Not For The Faint of Heart
Let's get one thing straight right off the bat. Breakups suck. It is a fact universally acknowledged by anyone that has ever been in a relationship that no breakup is a good breakup. Some breakups may be better than others but in 99% of relationships that end, it's safe to say they breakups just suck.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Families
- Top Story - March 2021
It's Not The Winning. It's The Taking Part.Top Story - March 2021
We all grew up with those phrases: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. You're rubber and I'm glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you. And of course my personal favourite, it's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Motivation
- Top Story - March 2021
Writers Should Be Using Vocal+Top Story - March 2021
I very much doubt that I am the only writer this side of the universe or any other side for that matter that struggles to stay focused. A creative mind is a wonderful and beautiful thing but it has a tendency to buzz and run from one creative project to another. For the longest time I struggled to stay focused on any one writing project and even harder to stay motivated when I did. Writing like any other craft takes practise.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Journal
The Disappointing Truth of Jack The Ripper
It never occurred to any of them that it might have been a woman. Even long after my death, in your books and your films filled with more inaccuracies and twists of artistic license than I can keep track of, it's never a woman. Not that I mind the anonymity. I had more than enough opportunities to show myself to my adoring public and they are adoring. Why else would they continue to visit the sights of my crimes, hoping to catch a glimpse of my ghost? It isn't because they loathe me for the things that I've done, it's because they wish they could feel the freedom of the things that I have done. Is that cynical of me? Or just terribly arrogant? Of course, a few of my visitors have seen me there, but they ignore me. After all, I am but a woman. No one is looking for me. They're looking for a staggeringly handsome, tall, dark, mysterious man in a top hat, possibly with a cane. Not a slim, tall, fair haired, young woman in a grey dress and a trench coat. Until you.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Criminal
The Fault in My Star Signs
I've never really been massively interested in astronomy. My Dad believes in it and often tries to guess people's star signs after brief meetings. He's always very excited when he gets it right. My Dad would have said to me well you do that because you're a Libra or you feel that way because you're a Libra and when I was old enough to find out for myself what the particular traits pertaining to the Libra Zodiac sign were, I had to agree with my Dad that I did seem to fit the general profile.
By Clara Elizabeth Hamilton Orr Burns3 years ago in Futurism
