Angela Kelsey

Tell the Story

Another Door

Filed in Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Memoir, Stories, voices :: April 13, 2011

I’m always aware of anniversaries, even before I’m aware that I’m aware.  Dated memories tap, knock, and finally pound until I look up and open the door to them. I heard the memories knocking as April began, knew in the back of my mind, or maybe actually in all my cells, that the anniversary was […]

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What I’m Writing Today

Filed in Domestic Violence, Memoir, Stories, voices, Writing :: April 3, 2011

[from the talk]: I don’t know about you, but despite all my experience and all that I’ve read and all the women I’ve known and talked to, I still have a hard time shaking a stereotypical mental image of a battered woman. I’m embarrassed to say that she doesn’t have a lot of money or […]

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And they flew.

Filed in Memoir, Stories, voices, Writing :: April 1, 2011

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, And he pushed, And they flew. –Christopher Logue [Insert sound of needle being dragged across the record.] How many posts have I written about flying, going to the edge, taking risks, getting out there and […]

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Writing the Prompt

Filed in Stories, voices, Writing :: March 28, 2011

When I wrote this morning’s writing prompt about not having any words, I was wondering if maybe i had hit my limit.  That’s it: no more words.  Certainly no more written ones, and maybe no more spoken ones either. “No such thing as writers’ block,” I’ve been known to say. But for the past two […]

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