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NetGalley Review: Full-Time Mammal
Thank you NetGalley and University of Iowa Press for the ARC of “Full-Time Mammal” by Rennie Ament. This is a great collection of free verse… Read more.

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Flowers, Dear Flowers, Farewell! By Louisa May Alcott
‘We are sending you, dear flowers, Forth alone to die, Where your gentle sisters may not weep O’er the cold graves where you lie; But… Read more.

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Still Playing Catch-Up with NetGalley!
Here is another collections of books I have recently read, courtesy of NetGalley. *** Dark is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce This book… Read more.






This is the Mask
This is the mask.
My mask.
It hides my scars: The scared girl I was.
The scared woman I am.
The seeker that never finds what she is looking for and wonders if she is even worthy to know.
This is the mask.
My mask.
It lets me pretend
It lets me believe
It lets me feel strong, look strong, be strong.
Until I take it off.
~Nicole Kapise Perkins
“Words made faerie tales.”
— le thi diem thuy

