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Take this sentence and use it in a story, poem or rant: "To this dark place I've come, and come again."(BCoFs)

There is only one dark place in my life right now and that is my addiction to smoking. That’s the only negative I can think of and it is a severe and pertinacious one. I am a smoker since I was seventeen years old and only have been off the cigarettes for one weekend during a field trip to jail in my early teens. No, I haven’t been incarcerated but I was in a group that played volleyball with inmates as part of a social program. At the time I gave up the smoking for one weekend. Have been smoking ever since. I am not particularly proud of the fact but at this point in my life I am not able or want to stop. It’s a mind thing, not a physical addiction. I can get over the nicotine I believe. It’s the ritual of rolling my own cigarettes, of being busy with my hands. It’s about that silly (and untrue) notion it relaxes me and it enables me to live a fairly stressless life. I use the time to smoke behind the computer as time to think, to contemplate about my writing. All the excuses made by an addict, I am aware of this. To this dark place I've come, and come again. I just cannot help myself!

Prompt: How will you spend Halloween weekend and Halloween? Any special plans?(BC)

No special plans since I am not celebrating Halloween other than on WdC. I have the weekend off since my computer job finished today and I can be a full-time writer from this day forward. Yippee. I am happy to devote all my time to writing now. I canceled my new plans to be a librarian for a couple of hours a week since it was not for me. The old job is gone and my new life as a writer will begin. This Halloween weekend is my fifth month into the adventure of writing in the English/American language and it’s been great so far. I’ve blossomed. So I continue this path, looking forward to what it will bring me. Lots to learn, to write, to review and have fun!

And hey, I have put my real face in my port. Thought it was appropriate after five months of being anonymous.

Day NINETY SIX "Give It 100!" 

 

 

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