by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Apr 22, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
I … have to keep writing. I have to keep telling myself that I am still me. I have been told that I have this incredible future in front of me – this future that lasts forever – and all I feel is a sick dread. I have nowhere to turn! My parents are gone, my...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Apr 9, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
Dragonwhore. Those words had actually come out of Kestrel’s mouth with the idea that I’d be happy now? He had elevated the term so that I’d think it was some vast compliment? This was his way of justifying his actions? The anger I’d felt building up just … burst...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Apr 2, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
(Note: I discovered in looking back that my journals became a running narrative while I worked through these first, difficult weeks. I think that by telling myself a story – making it a kind of novel, if you will – it moved me slightly to one side of the drama and...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Mar 26, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
Where do I begin to put into words what has happened to me? It has been days since I wrote in my journal, and still … it is a struggle to gather my thoughts. I suppose I should just start and scribble down anything that comes into my head. There was Lark, who...
by Galician Ah'ren Cladra | Mar 19, 2018 | Content, Dragonwhore (Journal)
I … wasn’t sure I’d slept last night, but I must have, because when I awoke there was a man standing at the foot of my bed. “How did you get in here?” I asked, when what I really wanted to know was, “Why did you get in here?” He just stood there, with a bit of a...