55 Flash Fiction Friday: The Doppelganger

"Isn't a doppelganger usually your double?", asked her friend. "Yes," she answered. "but in this case my doppelganger copies me instead of looking like me. My style, my personality... even my blog." She let out a disgusted sigh. "Is her blog any good? the friend asked. "Hell no!" She yelled. Both friends exploded into laughter.

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Theme Thursday: Palm

In the 15th century Goa along a trade route was a sleepy palm shaded place,
missionaries from the Society Of Jesus were sent for the proselytization race.


Rice was offered to those who would accept a new faith and way of life,
but these "Rice Christians" still kept their old beliefs despite possible strife.



A threat to the Catholic Church and all it stood strangling growth like a boa,
in 1545 St. Francis Xavier asked that the inquisition be brought to Goa.



Anti-Hindu laws were enacted to discourage worship of another kind,
Hindus were forced to listen to preaching in an effort to change their mind.


The inquisition promised to protect the converted to take up the new belief,
Some surrendered their faith while still others escaped and found relief.


It took 450 years until the inquisition was abolished and the records were lost,
16,000 people were tried and 57 sentenced to death paying the ultimate cost.


The fate of many in Goa at the hands at the inquisition is not known,
their stories remain untold under the palm trees that have grown.







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Wordless Wednesday: Meet Me At The Corner Of...

The Heavenly Muse

So where the hell have I been? I've been surviving. I left a relationship four months ago to take control of my own life. Years of being controlled and told what to do and who to talk to had left me a shell of who I imagined I would be at 17. I realized that I had given up on living and had ceased to fight for me. I went with the flow. I was alive but I was not living.

17 years after I had started sleepwalking through life I suddenly woke up. I wanted my freedom. I wanted to live. So I left. Once I left I sank myself financially. I had two little ones who needed daycare and my salary had not suddenly increased. The fear, the worry, the stress... it all took its toll.

I went from being a prolific writer who previously saw positivity in the dark to being unable to articulate myself and seeing life as pointless while my new found sunshine and light blinded my eyes. I wasn't able to write.

I slept with my muse. I kissed it daily. I held it and caressed it. Everyday I pledged my love to it but my muse failed me. As I desperately clung to it trying to get back my inspiration I found myself farther and farther away from who I once was and the work I was once able to create. I was abandoned by my heavenly muse. Everyday we made love and everyday I was left alone. It was slowly killing the spirit within me.

One day I realized that my heavenly muse could only do so much. There were only so many ways to save the drowning. I had to save myself ...again. So I have found my voice again and found me. I have discovered that I'm ready to write again. I have been kissed by my muse and I am inspired.

So.... to put it another way .... I'm baaaaaaaaack!

55 Flash Fiction Friday: Decode

"So my choices are either someone who wants to control me and never says they love me or someone who says they love me forever... but lies to me," He said to his friend. "Those are some interesting options," she said grimacing. "Yeah," He said sadly. "Decoding my future's so bright I gotta wear shades."

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