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Chapter 1 Growing up from the ground was a mix of ivy, blackberry vines, thistle, and dainty blue flowers that weaved around the base of two once sturdy legs, leading up to a collapsed chest cavity, that trailed up the neck and head, having been lovingly twisted into a flower crown. The crown rested just above the vacant-eyed stare of a skull with darts of too tight skin still clinging on in a facsimile of life. Gentle hands readjusted the crown with a smile as delicate as

Chapter 1 - No Place That’s Home At seventeen years old, Tameryn Marks had never had a real home. Not that she could remember, anyway. An orphanage certainly didn’t count. Some might consider that incredibly sad, even heartbreaking, but at this point, she’d grown indifferent. No, any kind of self-pity-based thinking wasn’t survival positive. Instead, she focused on things like maintaining average grades, having a hobby that acted as a good excuse whenever someone started as

It's been a long time coming, but having my own website, social media, and prepping a debut novel til it's ready for release (!!!) still doesn't feel real. Choosing to self-publish had a lot factors leading up to it but it will be worth it in the long run. For now, I'm going to be focusing on getting everything finalized, including figuring out final printing stuff, newsletters (that are different from these posts? Maybe?), and everything else that a new author has to handle.