Phoenixx Fyre Dean
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Phoenixx lives on the Oregon coast with her husband and children.
Author of Lexi and Blaze: Impetus, The Bloody Truth and Daddy's Brat. All three are available on Amazon in paperback format and Kindle in e-book format.
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We Didn't Know It Mattered
Here we go again. I'm sitting under the dining room table that my dad put in the basement for just this type of thing. I'm hiding from the war going on in my neighborhood. It's a literal war. I'm trying to just write and block out the noise. It's constant, the screaming and gunshots and more screaming. I don't understand why. I don't understand why it has to be like this. It wasn't like this last month. Last month, we had a big street party in our neighborhood. Last month, we all ate together. Last month our parents talked to each other. Last month I had friends. Last month I didn't know I was different. Last month, I was just a kid like any other kid. This month, I'm a kid with a black mom and a white dad.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Families
Moe! Part Two
Nothing could have gone more wrong in those last few moments inside the school hallway. I fired. There was blood. I fired again. Lots of blood. Screaming from every direction and chaos. Just complete and utter chaos. A chaos that was created by my hand. I looked down at the white paper suit that I had been forced to put on inside the hospital, where the police had taken my clothes, shoes, backpack, weaponry and ammunition as evidence. I had been taken to the hospital after the school resource officers were forced to deploy their tasers against me when I raised the rifle and attempted to fire at them inside the school. The rifle was empty. All of the ammunition had been fired in an attempt to take the lives or hurt as many of classmates as possible. I wanted them to shoot me. I fucked up and forgot my pistol in the closet that I waited in prior to me opening fire at Cole County High School.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Criminal
Ummm...Daddy?
Sometimes Daddy has to change our plans. It's not his fault; he has a job that keeps him in contact with the most influential people in our city. We are often asked to dinner, and that requires that I be prepared to change evening plans at a moment's notice.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Filthy
The Once-Reluctant Warrior
Throughout my life, I seemed to always lose when winning was a sure thing. It wasn't until my very good friend, Vince Bernardin, asked me to read a book by the name of The Dream Giver, written by Bruce Wilkinson, that I discovered why. I took the book home and started reading immediately.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Motivation
Biscuit Bash
Quarantine has brought about the need for many changes in our lives. One of the major changes in households across the world is how we are feeding our families. Making it from one paycheck to the next, on a tight budget and with little wiggle room is how most families make it through the month. For the majority of families with school-aged children, their weekly grocery budget now has to sustain the hit of adding two more meals everyday for each child plus snacks. With many households not able to work due to mandated closures, the strain is made even worse. It's hard to not panic at a time like this, but take a deep breath and we will work this out together. I have gathered a few recipes that are easy to prepare and are really easy on the budget as well. Almost all of the item listed are available at the Dollar Tree, and because many item are meant for to be used multiple times (grated Parmesan cheese, flour, sugar and various spices), each will be even less costly.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Feast
Ruction Repast
We are living in trying times, and for some it can be really scary. Families are often faced with making a decision between putting food on the table or purchasing medication or enough fuel to make it to work. To add insult to an already injured budget, families that have budgets that have long included the school system feeding each child two meals a day, five days per week, can no longer claim that security. Companies are laying off their employees or are closing all together, leaving many without jobs and uncertain futures.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Feast
The Value Of A Memory
My family had some odd habits when I was growing up. One of the more particularly odd habits of my father was that electricity wasn't permitted in my home on Sundays. No television. No telephone. No stereos. We would gather in the living room or at the dining room table after church and we would play games, tell stories or record cassette tapes to send to the family members that were scattered across the United States. I was a child and thought my father's idea was absolutely stupid. Why in the world couldn't we just be like any other normal family and gather around the television every evening? That we didn't own a television, an action that was taken by my father as a means of discipline, during that period of time further fueled my desire to not be a part of the family gathering. Just as I look back and remember that feeling of "my family is sooooo weird", I can't help but smile at the warm memory of my family gathered around a bulky cassette recorder, before time and circumstances separated we five. It was fun in its purest form. I'm sure the cassette tapes have long been discarded, but the memory will play in my mind forever.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Families
Stand In The Place Where You Are.
People often ask me why I do the work I do for the community that I live in. They ask why I care. They ask why I would live with just what I need to survive, when I make enough money to live comfortably. They ask me why I reach my hand out to anyone, when not everyone deserves it. It's simple. At the lowest point in my life, someone cared.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Humans
Hungry Like The Wolf
Filicide, by definition, is the deliberate act of a parent that murders their own child. The word by itself sounds as sinister as the deed, and the deed is unimaginable to most of the population. Though filicide applies to both parents, it is particularly shocking when a woman ends or attempts to end the lives of her children. Children born of her own body. How can a woman willingly and knowingly cause a defect in the flesh of her flesh, and watch as the blood of her blood spills from that defect?
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Criminal
Missing Or Murdered, Part Three
Most of us have lost someone important to us. Death is a natural part of life. We go through the process of mourning and we try to continue to live life without our loved one. For many though, the opportunity to mourn or to make sense of what is happening in their life will never materialize. The object of their desiderium is missing. Vanished without a trace.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Criminal
Body Count
Bad cops are real. They are real and they are dangerous. Their badge seems to excuse their behavior, and they often rise above the laws they are sworn to protect. Body cameras that should be able to provide a clear and indisputable record of what happened during any questionable incident often "fail" to collect information. It seems if you simply pin a badge on your chest, you are free to kill at will in Evansville, Indiana. It's become commonplace to hear one more press conference about yet one more officer involved shooting. Line of duty deaths or cold blooded murder? You decide.
By Phoenixx Fyre Dean6 years ago in Criminal
