Laura Lann
Bio
I am an author from deep East Texas with a passion for horror and fantasy, often heavily mixed together. In my spare time, when I am not writing, I draw and paint landscape and fantasy pieces. I now reside in Alaska where adventures await.
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The Other World
When the cold returns, so do my nightmares: vivid, sharp, crisp and painful dreams of horrid things. My nights become trapped in another world, living through movies that only exist in my head, braving stories my subconscious wrote. And, it drives me here to leave them on this page, despite knowing there is no solace in writing them out. It only serves to express what the various part of my brain is waking to scream across the folds of my mind.
By Laura Lann3 years ago in Journal
Silence Grows
I have not spoken to my father since 2016, at least, not in the conversive sense. Words have passed between us in one sided conversations or quick reiterations that he will have nothing to do with me. Till 2018 I sent many emails and paintings to him, updates on my life, just as I had before I was banished. Of course, as my denial ended so did the emails.
By Laura Lann3 years ago in Families
Spring Cleaning. Top Story - September 2022.
I suppose we hide it well, like cobwebs our mothers hasten to dust away before an aunt comes to visit. But, it's there, silently knocking at the door. It waits to come in. Such is the residual wound of abuse and the horrid tales that accompany it. It leaks into my conversations sometimes, but mostly now it stays tucked away.
By Laura Lann3 years ago in Confessions
