Novel Allen
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
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I am...a Metaphor.
rising metaphor existing now in real time floating away...
By Novel Allenabout 16 hours ago in Poets
A House with Good Bones
The house was the strangest thing I had ever seen. The 'for sale' sign had come loose and hung lopsided, waving slightly in the wind. How unusual that the agent had never bothered to mention this lovely place, or make it a priority. As we drove by, she casually alluded to it, noting that it was on the bottom of her list, trying hard to pass it off as a joke, but not succeeding.
By Novel Allena day ago in Fiction
Reclaiming My Tabula Rasa
Philosophically and psychologically, I was conceived as a "blank slate", my birth pure - innocent...my consciousness a vast ocean awaiting its savoir faire of appropriate-ness for the social world on which I, unwillingly, had been thrust into. My new form, though petulant and quite sulky, still yearned in anticipation - leaning eagerly toward the accumulation of new knowledge and for my personality to be shaped by experience.
By Novel Allen7 days ago in Humans
The Creole Praying Pots of Chef Leah Chase
The Conjure, or “hoodoo,” as it is often called, may be the “reorganized remnants” of what was once a more formal religion. Conjure, in African and Afro-American folklore, is far more than spellwork or superstition - it's a rich spiritual technology rooted in ancestral wisdom, resistance, and survival.
By Novel Allen16 days ago in Writers
