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21 Jan 2023 1 minute read 0 comments MamaLJ
I wish I could sail and discover new lands. Travel the lines on my palms, like tiny rivers in my hands. Gaze upon the stars as they reflect above and below. Never settling always moving, for there’s somewhere else to go. I want to see all the angles...
30 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments MamaLJ
The house is a mess god where do I begin? I let it happen again, I let it creep and slip in. There are no plates in the cupboards, there are spread across the sides, and the kitchen is the new landlord to the fruit flies. The cutlery has vanished and...
25 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments MamaLJ
Bah humbug, it's that time of year, when we spend more than we can afford and get pissed on cheap beer. Although I don't doubt it is merry for some, I myself find Christmas all too glum. I am the Grinch with a beating heart, a character at the tabl...
23 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments MamaLJ
A Pieces child born on a day of luck, dreaming of something but always stuck. The red cycle comes under the silver light, and manifesting in darkness comes the white. One moon, two suns and a red sky, I am back at home with tears in my eyes. I run an...
21 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments MamaLJ
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. She was not allowed to not look outside the window, she must never know the full truth. The world beneath was forbidden, poisoned, tainted and cru...
11 Dec 2022 7 minute read 6 comments MamaLJ
Harry and Meghan's documentary dropped on Netflix this week, and my goodness we Brits have a lot to say about it. For the past twenty-four hours, my Twitter feed has been filled with the biggest H&M fans of them all - their haters. The U.K. love to h...
27 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments MamaLJ
Lottie was strolling the gardens of Stourhead, she wanted to avoid her family members and their terrible friends. She wondered if they had realised she was absent, and then concluded they probably hadn't noticed. She was the eldest of her half a doze...
30 Oct 2022 7 minute read 2 comments MamaLJ
In the same week Germany legalised the recreational use of cannabis, the British police decided to change their approach to the 'war on drugs' by targeting users instead. Although I can see the logic behind this idea (especially for Class-A's), I fea...
17 Oct 2022 5 minute read 1 comment MamaLJ
It's late 2020, and we've all been let out for the first time since March. I feel sick, my period is late, and my boobs were especially tender; I was pregnant. S*** this wasn't supposed to happen yet. I was once told by some mystical lady I would hav...
10 Sep 2022 4 minute read 4 comments MamaLJ
I want to die, so I can live. It sounds strange I know but I have my reasons, and depending on your beliefs, death can signify re-birth; another chance in a new life. For those reading and do not know, I have Cerebral Palsy, and all my life I had th...
