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ShaunaJAY

  • Self Illusion

    Framed and faced,Blamed and braced,I allow them to call me a holy disgrace.I try and I fail,I fail and I cry, I sit in the shadows and ask myself 'Why?'Shattered ...

    • Poetry
    • Dramatic
    1 min read
  • You Know When You've Lived

    You haven't felt freedom 'til you've danced in the rain, suffered through pain and had it taken away.You haven't been taught 'til your bridges have burned, repeated mistakes that you ...

    • Poetry
    • Narrative
    1 min read
  • The Thoughts of Her Mind

    A question spun in her mind, The answers she could never find.“What does this future hold? Do I already know?” The road seems narrower now,and she remembers something once foretold.A ...

    • Poetry
    • Narrative
    1 min read


For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noise way beneath. The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein