Body Fiction 2

To keep a promise, here's a bit of a different Saturday Post!

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Six Separate Thoughts - Part II

From the hospital bed of a young woman:

It's the toe that pushes the accelerator. It’s the toe that puts the adrenaline and momentum in Vin Diesel’s inner thigh, and then in my imagination. All those car chases, all those dances with death. Ballet pointed toes with bullets and leaps across cliffs; leaps that I can’t do anymore. Then I watch Breakin’ 2 and crack up at the Boogaloo.

Right now I watch.

Meanwhile is healing. Meanwhile is pain. Meanwhile is trying not to drown in Percocet. Meanwhile are a million stupid detailed memories of things I will not be able to do. Even something as stupid as cracking my toe, which my mother hated, is something I will miss.

But I must remain positive. At least Mom won’t nag me about that anymore. And there’s the movies - Bond, Transporter, Fast & Furious. All of my friends vicarious. I’m in between.

All I have to do is choose, right? That’s what my big brother always said. “Once you make a choice, you’ll have more peace.” So, I choose. I choose to get up, to live, to fight, to honor the body part I lost by making it the underpinning of my future determination to thrive. I’m going to save my money and modify my whole frickin’ life to do the two things most unexpected of me in this new body.

First I’ve got to tell the doctors to stop acting like I’m dead already. I’m not dead, and I’m not letting their opinions of my sitch stop me. If Jason Statham can go from outdoor salesman to box office action star, then I can learn to walk without one of my big toes.

Once that’s done, I’ve got to tell my family to stop looking at me like a broken bird. It was bad enough after the accident, staring at my foot like it would suck them through the bandages into parts unknown. They stopped seeing me, choosing to focus on my one missing body part. A spotlight on phantom pain, and the irony of it is not lost on me.

Maybe I should get a new wardrobe. T-shirts with awesome slogans. STARE AT MY MISSING TOE SOME MORE PLEASE or WANNA HELP ME FIND MY TOE? What would that song Speed Demon inspire in a nine-toed woman’s t-shirt? I’ll make finding that out number 3 on my list.

Once I get out of this hospital bed, and through physical therapy, I’m going to learn how to race cars. I’m going to learn how to dance. Drive and dance.

I’m still frickin’ here people!

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© 1984
Breakin’ 2 – Electric Boogaloo

For Seddybear - Thanks for the prompt!

With words, song & prayer,

TiMo V

An Artistic Time Capsule - OPEN ME 1.23.15

I've been wanting to write so many things lately, but life has been playing chess with my plans.

I've had at least one idea for a play - a holiday meal with my cast of character family. Poetry coming out of my ears. I've been singing all the way to and from work, and this niggling feeling that I don't want my future children to think I gave up my creative side for the sake of a paycheck. I've signed up for my TLA Certification and I am planning on an invitation-only Dual Expression workshop for five women, once every couple months or so.

If I didn't share this with someone outside of me, I would let is sink back down and it would produce no fruit. So here's 90 seconds of me reminding myself to do these projects, share these thoughts, and invite those who are meant to join me to do so.

I invite you. I invite myself.

Check back with me in January 2015 and I'll be done with at least one of these things:
1. Mylu
2. Family Play - Title TBA
3. Workshop syllabus and invitees for Spring 2015
4. Something Musical - recorded

With words, song and prayer,
TiMo
Here's where you can read me
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

A Write of Passage- Submission #2

The Peggy Dobbs Writing Contest allows up to three entries. This is my second. Please feel free to comment, or better yet, submit an entry yourself.

For Peggy Dobbs "A Write of Passage" Writing Contest.
Click to read "The Heart has an Acid Trip" © Tiffany Monique 2013

With words, song & prayer,

TiMo
Here's where you can read me:
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com 
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

Here's the fine print for the contest:

Submit up to THREE entries. Each entry must include the author’s name and email address (which we will not share except with Edward Snowden). Entries should be sent to thorn@awordwithyoupress.com. Entries should be submitted as a Word (.doc) attachment, double spaced and in twelve point Times-New Roman font. For those who have submitted an entry to previous contests there is no fee. For all others there is a fee of $10 per entry by Paypal (also submitted to thorn@awordwithyoupress.com). 

However, once you have entered three of our contests you will be considered part of the family and there will be no additional fees to enter, except in extraordinary circumstances, such as a highly monetized prize.

Peggy's 1st Comment (May 2013)

Friday 11.1.13 - Percolating

I am still here. I am just not, here right now. I am molting right now, and my wings are still wet...

© Barndog Photography 2009

Sometimes this is a good thing to admit. Sometimes it is not.

While there is poetry in me wanting (begging, nay aching) to come out, I must admit to not having the energy to present it at its best just yet. Work, art, friends and family are occupying my mind, time and space and I have to experience those things in order to write about them later. Those of you walking with me right now are smiling, laughing, praying and waiting.

Stay tuned.

And in the meantime, please check out my submission to A Word With You Press's first annual  Write-of-Passage Contest in honor of our recently passed friend and writer Peggy Dobbs. Here's the link. It is a tribute to both Peggy Dobbs and William Shakespeare.

Please let me know what you think about it.

With words, song & prayer,
TiMo
Here's where you can read me:
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com 
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

Yours Truly, Summer 2011
© Tiffany Monique

For Peggy - A Write of Passage

My first interaction with Peggy Dobbs was this comment:

Peggy's 1st Comment (May 2013)

She became my Facebook friend, and true to her word, commented on my stuff (Jaded and Abbey Normal and the Fool - either directly or on the book of Face) before she left this earthly realm in June.

A Word With You Press felt her absence so acutely that fearless leader Thornton Sully immortalized her via The (First) Annual Peggy Dobbs Write-of-Passage contest... 750-1000 words in an original piece of fiction or nonfiction that must contain the words, “I swear, it’s not too late.”

I wanted to do something really special for Peggy. So I wrote Shakespeare... ish. 

For Peggy Dobbs.
Click to read "But Biding, I Live Beyond My Own Love"
© Tiffany Monique 2013

He's timeless, as she is timeless. I hope she would like it. I hope you do to.

With words, song & prayer,

TiMo
Here's where you can read me:
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com 
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

Yours Truly, Summer 2011
© Tiffany Monique

Here's the fine print for the contest:

Submit up to THREE entries. Each entry must include the author’s name and email address (which we will not share except with Edward Snowden). Entries should be sent to thorn@awordwithyoupress.com. Entries should be submitted as a Word .doc attachment, double spaced and in twelve point Times-New Roman font. For those who have submitted an entry to previous contests there is no fee. For all others there is a fee of $10 per entry by Paypal (also submitted to thorn@awordwithyoupress.com). 

However, once you have entered three of our contests you will be considered part of the family and there will be no additional fees to enter, except in extraordinary circumstances, such as a highly monetized prize.

A Contest From A Word With You Press

A Contest I Say! A Contest! From A Word With You Press!

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There is no greater pleasure than helping a student discover the beauty and power of the written word, but of course I am preaching to the choir.

We currently have a contest open to cyberspace and to all local students that allows them to see their work on line and to get valuable feedback from other writers who read their entries. Writers must create an original work of between 750 and 1,000 words that contain somewhere within the text the phrase "I swear, it's not too late."

Here are the parameters of the contest, which will accept final entries up until Thanksgiving Day.

http://www.awordwithyoupress.com/2013/09/19/500-reasons-to-read-this-entry/

To kick start some interest, AWwYP is offering $500 to the contest winner.

A Word with You Press will select six finalists who will then write a new piece to a different prompt to by judged independently.

I look forward to meeting you and discussing plans to save the world.

best

--

Thornton Sully
Editor-in-chief

A Word With You Press

Publishers and Purveyors of Fine Stories

106 North Main St.

Moscow,Idaho 83843

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A Word with You Press is a consortium of writing and publishing professionals whose purpose is to see that new and used authors reach a broad audience both on line and in print, and that their work loses fat and gains muscle tone.

We achieve this by hosting writing and publishing workshops, by editing, designing, illustrating and publishing both fiction and non-fiction manuscripts and by sponsoring inter-active writing contests from our website,

A Word with You Press would very much like to establish itself in their new community. We have since our founding in 2009 published ten books, including a Pulitzer Prize winner and award winning poetry and fiction, and we have sponsored over a hundred and fifty events for writers. 

Let's get the word out!!!

With words, song and prayer,
TiMo
Here's where you can read me:
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com 
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

Yours Truly, Summer 2011
© Tiffany Monique

Chris Moore (The Author Guy) as my Wingman - Flash Fiction Submission #2

 Below is the link to my Wing Nuts Contest submission from earlier this month. 

(c) Tiffany Monique 2013

I haven't had this much fun writing in a long time. Hope you enjoy it too!

(c) Tiffany Monique 2013

These most auspicious Literati were even nice enough to give me a mini-blurb on their site. Read that bit o' honey here.

Write on!

With words, song & prayer,
TiMo
Here's where you can read me:
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com 
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

Yours Truly, Summer 2011

Dean Koontz as my Wingman- Flash Fiction submission

Photo by Yours Truly
Washington, DC Spring 2010

First of all, Happy Friday to all, and to all a GOOD WEEKEND! Now to 'business'. 

In an effort to get out of my own way artistically, I am entering writing contests. I do hope you will also submit. Below is the link to my Wing Nuts Contest submission from earlier this month. 

Jaded by Tiffany Be

Please do me a solid, and read it (a double solid would include a comment or two)... I have a second submission coming. Be on the lookout. 

These most auspicious Literati were even nice enough to give me a mini-blurb on their site. Read that bit o' honey here.

Have a great one!

With words, song & prayer,
TiMo
Here's where you can read me:
www.alwaysalreadyalright.blogspot.com 
www.pmeqme.blogspot.com

Yours Truly, Summer 2011