Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.
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We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
Shannon CelebiTags: friends family family-relationships sisterhood sisters sister family-relationship best-friends besties
My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.
Shannon CelebiTags: family memories family-relationships sisterhood sisters siblings closeness close sister sister-bond
Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.
Shannon CelebiTags: support career careers hopes shattered-dreams career-paths supportive hopes-and-dreams supported
Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.
Shannon CelebiTags: freedom death free dead death-and-dying ghosts pretending dead-people death-of-a-loved-one dead-and-gone mama pretending-death
Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me.
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I’m sorry if...I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you’re trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.
Shannon CelebiTags: writing personal sharing writing-life writing-process seven-deadly-sins sharing-life sharing-pain writing-process-writing-advice mr-rogers the-neighborhood-of-make-believe trappped
Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow...and I know it’s time to bust out those “chocolate frogs” from Harry Potter.
Shannon CelebiTags: fear harry-potter chocolate afraid anxiety fears dementors dementors-kiss chocolate-problems-worry-humor chocolateism chocolate-frog
I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.
Shannon CelebiTags: writing fiction connection feelings writing-life feel fiction-writing writing-process feel-something
Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.
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