The Voice

[Michelle Davis]

I have a voice. Though it is often ignored or, at best, brushed aside like swatting an insistent mosquito, it is there. The murmur inside raising itself to screams, comes to the surface as mere whispers, so easily dismissed. And yet, I scream and rage, projecting inside so loudly that I cannot hear the outside world, and the echoes of my thoughts reverberating within my head deplete the energy to utter the words I want them to hear. My desires and needs go unspoken because I am unable to push them past the barriers of us all. I have no voice.

[Michelle Davis]

Thank you all so much! I've missed writing with you all. Hopefully I can find a little more time to purge! ;)

[Gita]

Sometimes the hardest things to say become easier when you write a third-person fiction story. I find I can let characters say what I might not say directly. For example:

Stump Shiner watched the political convention and thought, "what a bunch of assholes in suits."

See what I mean?

[Mike Handley]

Roar against the machine, girl. Well written, this.

[Stephen Torelli]

The voice is there... one with power... and I just heard it. Excellent!