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Traditional trauma exploration while watching Love and Death
2023 show starring Elizabeth Olsen (I had an actual panic attack watching the trial scene and had to turn it off. It made me have a PTSD episode of a deeply traumatic childhood memory and the dialogue in the scene brought me back to the memory) Sorry for spoilers.
Digging into the fresh
Investigative nature of human nature
Sexual fevers: I ran a high fever watching
These two have such a
Rauchy affair, my heart pounding
Aware of this building,
Cataclysm of trauma
Trickling inside of me that was ready to
Insiunate and
Overlap the sultry and sensual distractions I found myself enthralled by
Nothing could have prepared me for my trauma release when she brought the ax back, right before saying, “I will be right back.”
About the Creator
Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos,
I am Bexley by Resurgence Novels
The Half Paper Moon on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella The Job and Atonement will be published this year by JMS Books
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To my best friend
Dearest best friend, I had the worst migraine yesterday. It lasted a full 24 hours and I could not keep anything down. I've also been severely depressed off and on but I am working through it with therapy. I can't wait to talk to you on the phone again my dearest.
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Of all the students Mr. Benedick expected to see in his office, he did not expect the boy who was sitting there. What grade was this one, he thought? He walked over to his desk, looked at the folder Ms. Diner had left out for him, and opened it. There was a photo inside of it, taken from last year’s picture day. Not much growth; not too different. The boy sitting in front of him had nothing strange or unusual in his file, if a child’s life defined by having “nothing disruptive or regretful” in it could be called fine. Mr. Benedick also realized that “life” was an anagram of “file,” and wondered where that thought came from as he stared at the boy in front of him. Benny Duncan. Grade Four. Beloved by all his teachers so far. He had seen the boy playing with the other boys his age in the school yard at recess. Four Square and foot hockey. A normal-looking kid. A normal kid… And here he was, after a very stupid moment with the fire alarm and a shoe.
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Awww poor Merly, I'm so sorry you had a panic attack watching this 🥺 Why did you even watch this? 🥺 Just a few months back I listened to the podcast episode of the true crime this show was based on. It was crazy! I'm so glad you wrote this poem as a release. I hope you're feeling better now. Sending you lots of love and hug 🥺❤️
Intense!!