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Recipe for Disaster The first thing I noticed was the smell. Something sharp and bitter burning in the kitchen, curling its way down the hallway and into my chest like a warning I had already ignored too many times. It wasn’t the kind of smell that suggested dinner was ready. It was accusation. Heat without comfort. Evidence without witnesses. I was sitting on the floor with my back against the cabinet, knees drawn in, staring at the blackened coil of the stove as if it were staring back. There was a strange intimacy in watching something e...
Submitted to Contest #332
SHE BREATHED THROUGH THE RAIN by Ellen Tjaden Before I ever learned how to disappear emotionally, I learned how to disappear in water. I was small—too small to understand how fast an adult’s anger could turn dangerous—and I remember the moment the world slipped into silence as the water closed over my head. The shock, the weight, the helpless sinking. I didn’t have words for it then, but something inside me understood: breath was not guaranteed, safety was not guaranteed, being pulled back up was not guaranteed. Even after they dragged me ou...
The Mirror and the MazeA Reflection on Love, Shadow, and Awakening by Ellen Tjaden ©️2025 All Rights Reserved Chapter One — The Spark The night Orion met her, the world seemed to hold its breath. The city’s noise dulled to a hum, and every light shimmered as if aware of the moment unfolding. Elena was standing by a wall of framed photographs, looking at an image of the moon reflected on still water. The reflection was perfect—too perfect. He stood beside her without speaking, drawn by something he couldn’t name. “You see that?” she said sof...
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