Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story. - Ashleigh Brilliant

MOTHER - Poem

i hate you i love you i hate you all over againi see you with your paper skingasping for air like some sallow hagfish chained to a blasted heaththere is uneasy, aimless talk you shuffle back to your bubbleback to your safe haveni find you curled up within your …

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Queers, keep yourselves quiet!!! (America knows you're wrong.)

A friend and I were walking in the mall yesterday and I stopped at the water fountain to get a drink.

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Tracking Down My Online Haters

Normally, this sort of thing doesn't faze me. Write sports for a living (especially online, as I do for SI.com), insults come with the turf. You're dumb. You suck. You're an idiot. You're a moron. I'll never read your crap again. That's the %#$$ #$@@#$ %$$# thing I've ever heard.

How WE would fix Newsvine

Over here, a discussion has been had in response to a seed listing suggestions for improving Newsvine. At over 1000 comments, lots of derailing and a dash of drama, the thread has become all but unusable. And certainly ineffective for real discussion purposes.

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S&M, #31 and Me

Last Wednesday night one of my teeth started having tremors. It's a bad tooth. It was scheduled to be removed once the areas of the extractions I had two weeks ago healed. I had babied it. Coddled it. Talked nice to it. No solid foods. Topical numbing solution. Got through it.

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Friendship and Reciprocity

I've been thinking a lot about friendship. The types there are. The meaning. I've never been one of those people that has a large group of friends. I have a few people that I am close to. My best friend and I have been 'together" for over 30 years. There have been rough spots.

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Pluck it, Shave it, Wax it!

It's a subject that needs to be brought into the light. Men do it. Women do it. Some should do it more...or less. Sometimes it's spoken about in passing. Sometimes we talk about it amongst each other. The time has come to open up and tell it like it is. It's grooming.

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Blogger beware: Postings can lead to lawsuits - latimes.com

The Internet has allowed tens of millions of Americans to be published writers. But it also has led to a surge in lawsuits from those who say they were hurt, defamed or threatened by what they read, according to groups that track media lawsuits.

Fractured Wall

That hole that's inside me, that place with the wall, no chink in the mortar, no entrance at all. Then I discovered, protection or no, the danger is within, and nowhere to go. It fractured, saw daylight, for only a breath.

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DWF...Looking for Love!

Hello gentlemen! The time has come for me to get back out in the dating and loving world! I got some advice from the interweb and decided to take a big breath and get to it! They say to be honest, be specific and be positive. NO problem. I call it like I see it. I do.

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The Stranger I Knew

I was sitting at the computer killing time. Playing solitaire. I don't recall. The house was quiet. The radio playing softly in the background. A cigarette burning in the ashtray. I didn't hear him come up behind me. I felt it. He put a knife to my throat.

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In Deep Water...

I am swimming. The little dock many yards behind me. I can see the shore. The forest. The beach. Friends. I can hear their laughter, see them running around, playing with a brightly colored beach ball. Some laying on the hot sand, some goofing off on the edge of the water.

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Rumors On The Lastest Newsvine Fight

Shhhh........This is secret and no one is supposed to know. However, it just so happens that so-and-so called what's-his-face a bugger head.

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"Going Primal: The Psychologist"

Part 1 of a sporadic saga. Part 2 is here A while back, not very recently, I had a rather disturbing experience involving a gun, my girlfriend, and a bloody mess in my bedroom. I’m not going to go into the details here.

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Get Over It!

***** NOTE: Because some people found a term used in this article offensive, that term has been changed. No other edits have been made. ***** The other day I wrote this to my "Independent" friend Perrie...

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Neenie's Fruitcake

On another thread neenie heard me talking about how much I like fruitcake and how I have to buy them at the store because I don't know anyone that makes them. Well that led to a challenge.

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I am Now a Welfare Queen

In the eighteen months since the company at which my husband worked for almost 13 years closed, I have had as many as four jobs as a time. This makes it quite hard to be the mother of three children, two of whom have special needs.

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Winter Clown

Disconnected. This is how I feel right now. This happens every year for me. It's very common for people who suffer from depression or bipolar. Every year seems like it's the worst. Because you're in it. It's a dark place amid Christmas lights, smiling faces, giving.

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It's a Doorstop! It's an Anchor! It's a Fruitcake!

Johnny Carson once said, "The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other."

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Brain Dance

He's slouched against the buff colored wall. Hiding behind the curtain that is his hair. His hands alternately clenched, dirty fingernails digging into his palms, or jammed into the pockets of his worn, unwashed jeans. His frayed, faded flannel shirt is buttoned crooked.

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Motorcycle Attack of The 50-Foot Zombie Crackhead Homo Atheist Socialist Fundamentalist Neocon Zionist Feminist Muslim CIA NWO TreeHugging Terrorist From Outer Space

The old-fashioned horror movies just don't cut it anymore. 'Back in the day', the Wolfman, Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein really spooked people because those were archetypes that resonated with the fears of a simpler time. But not any more...

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Do Some Newsvine Members Mean More? Calvin Responds

We've seen some on-Vine feuding lately between members, resulting in some suspensions, and the voluntary loss of at least one. I wondered... so I went to the source.

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Publishing Articles to Newsvine

From time to time we at Newsvine HQ like to remind the Community of certain rules that, if followed, help ensure that Newsvine remains a fair and equitable place for everyone.

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