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we will not be silenced – Candice Louisa Daquin

tu dois me croire. (you need to believe me) the teacher looks down at my 8-year-old handwriting i never could spell well in French it’s true she squints at the words, describing abuse like they are hard to understand then carefully, with her lips pursed, fingers suspended in air briefly like just before you beginContinue reading “we will not be silenced – Candice Louisa Daquin”

Daily Creativity Prompt – We Will Not Be Silenced

In honor of its 5th anniversary, Indie Blu(e) Publishing and Brave & Reckless are teaming up this November to sponsor a series of 30 daily creativity prompts, comprised of the titles of our 25 published books and four upcoming titles, along with a couple fun phrases to round it out. We think our book titlesContinue reading “Daily Creativity Prompt – We Will Not Be Silenced”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Dom Wynette

I’m the woman you’re mother warned you aboutThe one people wince at what may come out of my mouthI say what I want even at your grandmother’s houseI might even slouch on her couchPeep my reflection and take a selfie with my tongue outYea that’s meThe one she told you could never be a wifeBecauseContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Dom Wynette”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Stephen Fuller

WeOnlyHave ourselvesTo blame for thisAgain and againAn unsolved tragedyWe must hold ourselves to taskFor every death. Every childLike spent shells fallen to the groundSouls adrift to haunt those who do not act –Who do not act again and again and againI cannot look away again, again, againAgainAgainAgainAgainAgain, again, again, again, I cannot look away, notContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Stephen Fuller”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Devika Mathur

To see sanguine ropes of dirt and mollusk we walk under the skins of disgust, often choking Slumping, sliding under the caskets of Coffins Biting the threads of skulls, breathing the sands of hope We have a thumping noise, striking our iris and hands Shivers and cold Noises. Filling the brim of the Planet with liquidsContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Devika Mathur”