Emily Jackson
Bio
Writing has always been an ally, through unveiling new worlds as a child, providing an escape route in my teens, and now as a safe harbor to examine my past. I work in youth homelessness prevention to alleviate the problems I once faced.
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Forever and Ever, Amen
Step. Stomp. Splash. I'm going to die on this road. This is the only thought infecting the soft folds of my mind. It's an inchworm invading and nesting, this thought becoming a mantra. When and how did I lose my mind? In case you're wondering: by 'road', I don't mean a street, or avenue, or lane. Nothing with a discernable start and end, where one block ends another begins. No, by 'road', I mean this journey I've found myself beguiled into. Anything seemed better than my previous life, but now I'm not so sure.
By Emily Jackson5 years ago in Fiction
The Podcast to Bring us Out of the Dark: Stories of Hope. Third Place in Members Only Challenge.
I always knew I would tell my story. I just didn’t know storytelling would become my passion. I didn’t realize the simple act of sharing could impact individual’s lives in profound ways, and now it’s my mission to spread the message of healing, connection, and hope.
By Emily Jackson5 years ago in Motivation
"To Planet Earth and Back"
"It's a UFO!" My mother's face would awash with an inaccessibly distant, childlike glow when she made these revelations. She would only be pointing to an airplane or shooting star, but I would never risk losing the mysticism on her face by telling her that. Those moments watching her observe the stars were the most fond to me, the most likely to cause choked tears to slide down my face upon recollection. I can't articulate what that look meant to me without breaking down into a sobbing mess, my computer screen turning into a spaghettio-soup of jumbled letters, like the kind she used to feed me when we were flat broke. Anyone who was lucky enough to see her expression while looking at the stars knows what I'm talking about - the strong woman that's allowed herself to be vulnerable only to the stars. Her ability to (or perhaps her need to) get so excited over unknowable things in the face of her own 'unknown'.
By Emily Jackson5 years ago in Confessions
