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# The Writink

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- [My 30 Day Truth Challenge](https://thewritink.com/my-30-day-truth-challenge/) - In 2015, I did a 30-day Truth Challenge with long-form writing. To this day I think it best captures a lot of my opinions on some of life's big stuff, so I'm sharing here as a personal archive for myself and for any others who may wish to peruse it.
- [Being a bitch...](https://thewritink.com/being-a-bitch/) - "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to." ~ Stephen King, "Dolores Claiborne"
- [Derelict](https://thewritink.com/derelict/) - She is feared more than she is worshipped, like all queens of all empires. They flee from her in the corridors of the palace, they adorn their hair in mimicry adulation, they sashay their hips and pout their lips and powder their faces and patiently await her choice of pastime to pursue. Her face is
- [Worthy Organs](https://thewritink.com/worthy-organs/) - It’s in a man’s nature to risk the things he loves But pity, little boy, one day this nature will reap a hefty price You are loath to pay. There’s resplendent irony in Desperately desiring devotion from others While being so laughably steeped in commitment phobia yourself. Hypocrisy can be so cruelly careless When your
- [London: The Exile](https://thewritink.com/london-the-exile/) - London, my love, I miss the foreignness of your tongue, of your skin upon mine... The comfort in the knowledge that I would never belong, nor ever feel the need to. Where, oh where are your welcoming, deceitful arms to salvage me From my exile to a birthplace I can no longer taste in my
- [Faith in love...](https://thewritink.com/faith-in-love/) - I think faith in love is like religion. However irrational it may be, We need to believe there is a master blueprint, A puzzle with pieces that fit. Because the alternative (Random, volatile emotion) ...Is absolutely frightening.
- [The folklore...](https://thewritink.com/the-folklore/) - (The timeless folklore): "He'll change. He'll love you eventually. Just you wait and see..."
- [Witness of reality](https://thewritink.com/witness-of-reality/) - There are three sides to every story... His side, her side, and the REAL truth. The real truth is always inaccessible. There are no witnesses of reality, Just two people living their own blinkered version of it.
- [Fracture](https://thewritink.com/fracture/) - The heart, like a bone, never truly heals. The smooth external skin hides the faint line of fracture beneath the supple flesh. The body always needs to remember where it has been broken. The heart: why.
- [Unconditional Love](https://thewritink.com/unconditional-love/) - The best thing about having a pet is that, Unlike offspring and lovers, It will never stop to analyse and reconsider Its reason for loving you.
- [Relationship Retrospect](https://thewritink.com/relationship-retrospect/) - Definition of relationship retrospect: "I remember how much I needed you, I remember how I could barely breathe without you, I remember how you made me feel, I remember how my world revolved around you... I remember that I loved you, But for the life of me, I can't remember why..."
- [The Word "Can't"](https://thewritink.com/the-word-cant/) - I once belonged to the school of thought that did not believe in the word "can't"... but alas, no more. I can't. I... just... can't. I can't care anymore... about all these things, all these negative elements, naysayer people comfortable in their tiny little boxes, all this meaningless status quo brilliantly intertwined in that misappropriated
- [Climbing The Walls](https://thewritink.com/climbing-the-walls/) - I’m forgetting something. I’m driving home and it’s 8:26 p.m. Friday and I know I’m ridiculously late but I was in a meeting with Sunrise’s lawyers and my boss Darren since five, and I know I should have called Kris but time kept passing and I kept thinking I’d leave soon – my new arriving-at-home
- [Skirts](https://thewritink.com/skirts/) - She waits. Holding the cool metal in her hand now. The raw untamed pleasure of frigid air at her nape. Pale brown curls billowing at the whim of the wind. Billowing like a skirt. She never wore skirts. The beautiful, beautiful turquoise water miles below. Her favourite place. Dangling her feet, childish-like, over the rocky
- [The Apology](https://thewritink.com/the-apology/) - She meets you at a run, her arms open to touch you, to hold you, all these limbs flying and that golden-brown mane whipping into your eyes, stinging them. Her body is earthly and whole and supple and beautiful and real, wrapped in your arms standing there like idiots inside the gates but no more
- [Cat and Mouse](https://thewritink.com/cat-and-mouse/) - She didn’t really fall in love with him at first sight. In fact, she never really fell in love with him at all. It was different, something eternally foreign to her, something she would not ever understand. She was tentative, afraid. Moving in with four guys and three girls she didn’t know, some from countries
- [The Caretaker](https://thewritink.com/the-caretaker/) - He loves the night, when the darkness envelops him and soothes his old, weary body. Everyone else is locked in their rooms, squirming between their sheets, flailing about in their nightly battles with sleep, muttering incoherent ramblings, some of them bound to their beds with the senility and insanity swarming from their skulls in multitudinous
- [Losing Faith](https://thewritink.com/losing-faith/) - Some days you wake up and say fuck the world. Some days are worse than others, some days you lie in bed awake wondering where you’re going, what it’s all about, what there is in God’s great plan for you. If He exists, that is. You believe He exists, to some degree. You see Him
- [The Secret](https://thewritink.com/the-secret/) - I almost told her everything, once. Maybe she isn’t my best friend, or who I would call my best friend off the top of my head, but she ‘gets’ me the most out of everyone I’ve ever known. Maybe. I’m not sure. She seems to. Do you ever really know? Do you ever really know
- [Cyberwalls](https://thewritink.com/cyberwalls/) - There were so many photos captured, so many snaps of the soul that belonged to the girl I once knew, that I feared that one had stolen her essence. I searched but could not find her, she had faded from memory, she no longer lurked in mirrors, she was no more. But surely someone had
- [Emotion is cruel](https://thewritink.com/emotion-is-cruel/) - Emotion is cruel. It ravages heart, mind, soul, and spirit when you least want it to... it scrabbles at the budding insanity pressing against the cranium when you strive to push it away. And then, when you most need it, when you stare perfection in the face, when you should feel happiness brushing against our
- [Sketches](https://thewritink.com/sketches/) - You laugh a little too hard, stop, listen to your voice. You want to say something but you hate hearing yourself speak. You want people to know you're not silly, you're not stupid, you're worthy of their company. You smile, signifying nothing but complacence. You just want people to like you. He's standing in front
- [Abandon (Unfaithful)](https://thewritink.com/abandon-unfaithful/) - Soul saturated with sweat and the scent of sex, substance-dampened numbed mind, pressing gyrating bodies seeking salvation with this sin, lose myself in the music in the movement in the moment, let go with wild abandon, anything everything coursing down my throat warming my heart, breath quickening with each step each thrust, teeth eyes flashing
- [The Exile](https://thewritink.com/the-exile/) - Laughter. Heads thrown back, laughing, heartily, the potent demanding contagious type of laughter that tumbles out of stomachs and assaults throats and fills rooms. Their benign cruelty seeps through the thin veneer. You smile, faintly, at the aching familiarity, and walk away. You step outside in the freezing cold, wrapping your arms tightly around you.
- [The Chameleon](https://thewritink.com/the-chameleon/) - Restless feet, restless heart, transitory people... never here, never there, never anywhere long enough to let go of that preeminent paranoia... delightfully deceptive, holding her cards to her chest, too wary to play her hand, too afraid to ease open that door ever so gently... her practiced laugh, her repertoire of repeatable words, the stories
- [Coming Undone...](https://thewritink.com/coming-undone/) - "Who do you need... who do you love... when you come undone??" -- Duran Duran When the music won't drown out the sobs and you don't stop shaking and there aren't enough tissues in the world to mop up the sorrow in your soul and your throat closes so you can't breathe and the music
- [Before the Storm](https://thewritink.com/before-the-storm/) - She’s singing again, the nonsensical melody-less gibberish of youth… and the warmth in my chest expands, filling the dark hole inside of me and threatening to spill over. She is the epitome of utter perfection, a beacon of light, brilliant in her effusiveness, skin purer than fine china, bright brown eyes shimmering impishly, sporadic toothy
- [The Diary...](https://thewritink.com/the-diary/) - I keep a diary. I have kept one for most of my life. As a child it was on paper, in books, all around my room, hidden from the prying eyes of my parents, whom I never doubted would invade my privacy at the drop of a hat. Looking back on it, they probably didn't care.
- [Words](https://thewritink.com/words/) - Do you know what's beautiful about words? Unlike math or science, no formula will produce the exact same result twice. The synapses, the cognitions, the connections, may ricochet and interact... But imitation is its own flattery that cannibalises itself. Genre notwithstanding, no two writers can independently produce the same piece. In fact, no one writer
- [The Vault Keeper](https://thewritink.com/the-vault-keeper/) - Despite my decision to be keeper of this vault, This thing we birthed in secret Has clasped its fingers around my throat Clawed its way through my heart Chomped into teeth into my spine Created a gnawing hole inside me so deep That I am loath to replete. The panic pumps my blood too quickly
- [Millenial Mediocrity](https://thewritink.com/millenial-mediocrity/) - Ours is a millennial generation proselytized to pursue our dreams... Impelled to imagine the broad gamut abound with possibility... Inculcated to aim to overachieve... Destined to be obscenely overwhelmed And Electing to be utterly underwhelming... Potential is the promise we evade to keep. We seek simple comforts. Obscurity. Oblivion. Obsequity. We curse the monotone, Complain
- [God of Vodka](https://thewritink.com/god-of-vodka/) - Oh baby if you could only see me now Worshipping the god of vodka Kissing the porcelain with cracked, brittle lips If you could only see me now Broken and bruised Hollow heartless ribs Racked with maniacal laughter If only you could see me now Fucked up and loving every moment of it Allowing a
- [The Affair](https://thewritink.com/the-affair/) - Oh, I could stroke your long neck for hours Caress the coolness of your chilled hardened hide And suck the elixir of life from your core. We met when I was too young to know any better, When my holey heart and the madness around us Was too much to swallow. So I swallowed you.
- [The Betrayal](https://thewritink.com/the-betrayal/) - Silence, vile being All that pours from your mouth is filth And lies Tumbling forth from your rodent tongue You've ruined everything With your sorcerer words And body of black velvet That lied to me Time and time again Your sorcerer words that tricked me Used me Abused me Fucked me For my money For
- [The Nonchalance](https://thewritink.com/the-nonchalance/) - I want to crawl out of my skin and under his To walk around with his limbs for a day And feel the emptiness echoing where love Once resided in his heart. I want to reach out, To claw at his face And scrape off the indifference etched there, The nonchalance that paints his face
- [The Devil You Know...](https://thewritink.com/the-devil-you-know/) - Because I am stepped in so far that, Should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as going o'er... Because so much of you is tangled in me That I'm afraid to strip away the you And see there is nothing left of me... Because it's easier to stay quiet Than speak up, Because
- [Change](https://thewritink.com/change/) - You can't fear change You have to embrace it Crave it, cradle it You have to Keep your mouth shut Let it have its way with you Close your eyes if you need to Brace from the pain But smile, baby girl And make sure that you say thank you.
- [In Medias Res](https://thewritink.com/in-medias-res/) - Lovers do not earn this title at infancy But in medias res... Remember this When you feel the irreverent desire to cure damage you did not create... Remember that Despite your backstage peek You are not the playwright But the spectator in this show... You will never learn all the reasons Or have all the
- [Big Tune](https://thewritink.com/big-tune/) - You ain't hear de big tune? Miss Leary little girl The one with the thin foot And the big head, Well not just the head big now, you know. The child, she growing big and nice She in big school now Where boys does wear de long pants She playing on the school team, tennis
- [An introspection](https://thewritink.com/an-introspection/) - Don't you ever get tired of learning? The only knowledge I've gained Is that there is so much more knowledge to gain And not enough time to gain it in And not enough space in the brain To retain it all And not enough sense in the obsolescence of the world To learn new versions
- [Puzzle (Picture on the Box)](https://thewritink.com/puzzle-picture-on-the-box/) - You are always only piece of someone else's puzzle And often, not the largest, at that... You met this puzzle half-complete And you're never certain, til it's done Whether all the pieces are even there Or maybe some got misplaced along the way... So why are you still trying to build this thing With no
- [Entity](https://thewritink.com/entity/) - The darkness is an entity In itself, my friend. It comes whether we request it Or not. These streetlamps lead the way home – The way to freedom, Or only to more captivity By rules and obligations Rather than bars. It’s all the same, always the same. Life is not about change But about self-adaptation
- [The Obedient Puppy](https://thewritink.com/the-obedient-puppy/) - Step away, little girl... Why do you always put yourself in these positions? Don't you know? Can't you see it by now? Have you learnt nothing? Foolish girl, allowing another female to chastise you, To look at you with scorn, To speak coarsely to you, As if you were no more than something sticky under
- [Toddler](https://thewritink.com/toddler/) - Chocolate brown eyes, Sad, forlorn; Always the victim. Bound of glee, Such a clumsy fool -- It's not your fault. Sprawled on the floor, You make everywhere your home; You think you own the universe. You'd knock down anyone, Won't let anyone get in your way, Definite that everything is yours. Forever ready with hugs,
- [The Craving](https://thewritink.com/the-craving/) - Culture is the indoctrination of crazy It teaches us to crave another More than seeking solace in ourselves Knowledge of this farce is admirable Though utterly useless The mind is aware But the body betrays you Time and time again Reaching out of the shell of your mind Clawing at things You don't want to
- [Enough](https://thewritink.com/enough/) - It's dangerous sometimes, this religion of you and me that we fabricate In the fragile threads we weave around each other To cover the things we are too afraid to say And some days, I believe in it less And trust you less And fail to be the stalwart co-creator I was when our impudent
- [Awake (an anti-establishment tirade)](https://thewritink.com/awake-an-anti-establishment-tirade/) - Say nothing Eyes lowered Keep to yourself Belong to no one Participate enough to not be invisible But not to be truly seen Cards to your chest Not afraid but aware Wary Awake. These are not your people If having people is a marker you crave These are not your confidantes Or your comrades But
- [Bratty Brilliance](https://thewritink.com/bratty-brilliance/) - Let me tell you something, kids… The reason you are unemployed, or still looking… Shh, listen up… here’s the secret: The economy is afraid of us. They are terrified to train us Because We don’t know the meaning of loyalty, Security is stagnancy, 20, even 10 years service seems like a sentence… Why rot here,
- [A Tinny Voice](https://thewritink.com/a-tinny-voice/) - They teach us here That everything is make-believe That we are being manipulated By the capitalists, by the media That there is no answer to the question of life That our personalities are only self-inflicted masks That we wear to sell ourselves to others That the price we pay for civilization and culture Is repression
- [Chronicle](https://thewritink.com/chronicle/) - Nowadays there is a chronicle of everything Even that which we once chose to forget The words we said And things we did Before the selves we are today The "in media res" that paved the path to the here and now And cemented the behaviour, the ways We now cannot escape. But we want
- [The Reaction](https://thewritink.com/the-reaction/) - "Aren't all kinds of pain... about the bigger picture, aren't all human interactions... about reactions?" Sometimes it's not the bite itself that stings But the swelling around it... The allergy, the reaction Yet we need to focus on the singular incident That manifests, presents itself For salving Because Absorbing, acknowledging the root of the
- [Colonised (The Evangelist)](https://thewritink.com/colonised-the-evangelist/) - As the years bear on Steadfast in their tracks I feel myself colonised Coloured By you, Your views spiraling forth From my tongue Words ricocheting in my head... I've become One of the converted That worships at the altar Of your extremes. Falling in line Is just easier, Your good little soldier The reluctant evangelist...
- [Star-crossed (A Simple Love Story)](https://thewritink.com/star-crossed-a-simple-love-story/) - It was love, the puppy kind That pre-dates history And spills beyond pimply-faced teendom And still pumps blood Decades later As atoms part to display In the universe An arm's length away But miles beyond: The girl, the one That got away... She sees him Her face breaking into a smile That can't be helped;
- [The Quarrel](https://thewritink.com/the-quarrel/) - Words hurling Daggers, swords and sharper weapons At any exposed flesh Any shameful moment Summoned from the past To cower in the light of day A quarrel drawn out For hours Erupting steadily Through the call of dusk A slam of door, A rev of engine Then, only silence. A quiet night in a bed
- [Unprepared (The Spectacle)](https://thewritink.com/unprepared-the-spectacle/) - There is no calm here No blind faith in this fate, No serenity dawning At the turn of blue, No otherworldy morphing into someone else Someone mature, maternal, ready... This laughter, This ready, easy smile Has come to terms With little else but shame, cowardice At being discovered a fraud Aborted by the alien creature
- [Better](https://thewritink.com/better/) - People do it every day. They get up off the floor They make a change They suck it up They. Find. A. Way. They decide not to be losers Nor to be consumed... Why not you, baby girl? Why do you keep going back and forth? Don't you know who you are What you want
- [Commitment](https://thewritink.com/commitment/) - The greatest tales of love Are those untold No lavish gifts No lovelorn chords No flowers No facade No so called friends Nor frauds to intervene... Just the glimmer of light Amidst a dark moment; A look An understanding A split second Of ride or die, In or out... Where you choose To commit In
- [The Last Goodbye](https://thewritink.com/the-last-goodbye/) - There’s a dark ball of evil inside you He says. And sometimes I wonder If that’s the real you Or if the real you is the pretty girl Smiling at me With tears in her eyes. You’re a fucked-up kid He says. You’ve never known Real poverty You’ve never known Real pain Yet you sit
- [Chasing the Light (The Gameshow)](https://thewritink.com/chasing-the-light-the-gameshow/) - Peel away the layers At the rare wonder of our initial connection A series of events and a unity of forces Illuminated So uniquely, so perfectly matched That replication would be futile Or ill-fated at best... Peel away the layers The fragile sinews of our bond Our decision Our choice To travel this path When
- [Fight vs. Flight](https://thewritink.com/fight-vs-flight/) - I know you worry, baby girl, About the autopilot state That homing beacon that overrides all And brings you safely to The arms of the ones you love That claim to love you; You fear to become too dependent On machine, on organ, on emotion, on others. But that's the problem, babe, With being the
- [Highway of life](https://thewritink.com/highway-of-life/) - The natural temptation is to accelerate to outpace the vehicle in front of you... But remember, on the highway of life, Just because another vehicle is bypassing yours Does not mean that it is any closer to a destination worth aspiring to.
- [Discipline](https://thewritink.com/discipline/) - At the end of the day, it's about discipline Discipline to stay in one place With your feet itching to run, Discipline to hold steadfast to the cause Even when your body reels towards the temptation to stray From the nucleus of faith, Discipline to become the brilliance expected of you And not succumb to
- [Slumber](https://thewritink.com/slumber/) - That moment of indecision When slumber has you in her grasp On the edge of sleep and wake Your brain is jolted Awake But can't summon the power To mobilise your limbs... The darkness descends A cloud of fatigued exhaustion Can this paralysis claim you Finally? Has the time come To give in?
- [Out From Under](https://thewritink.com/out-from-under/) - Once you're a recovered addict, You can no longer take a little drink Or dabble with a mild drug. The slightest taste is not cool Or casual But a serious slip. In life, once you're out from under There has to be a point of no return No going back to normal No nothing. Because,
- [Change (Part 2)](https://thewritink.com/change-part-2/) - I can smell the sickly-sweet aroma in the air again Taste it on the lips Forced to open In acceptance A cruel tongue, a harsh word Whispered through a crevice In my sanity: Change. Hello, old friend What have you in store for me This time around? What fresh hell Have you placed at my
- [Temptation](https://thewritink.com/temptation/) - Ah you again, old friend Welcome back Nice to see you Now that You do not own me anymore And cannot yoke me to your whim. You forget I know you, old friend I've played your tired game before When I was younger and had less to lose And no one worthy at the finish
- [Open Water](https://thewritink.com/open-water/) - One Petit Carême day of youthful oblivion I visited the ocean with two friends. The afternoon wore on As we follied in open water; A riptide curled its tentacles around my ankles. As I flailed and struggled to surface Gasping with desperation To reintroduce air into my lungs, Her fingers interlocked mine from in front
- [The Fable of Female Empowerment](https://thewritink.com/fable-female-empowerment/) - I wish I could explain sometimes How it feels to be a woman: To be desperately seeking to be desired Yet still preferring to be ignored, To walk down the street Head lowered, heart pounding: Brave enough to invite the danger But not daring to open the door, Holding fast to your emotions Keeping them
- [The Storyteller](https://thewritink.com/the-storyteller/) - I've watched you lie To end a conversation: Eyes sparkling, head nodding; Such sumptuous Contagious Conviction. I've watched you create Stories on the spot, Invent people and problems Characters and challenges Victors and victims Reduced to anecdotes, Bludgeoned to insignificance Beneath the weight of your Signature chuckle, And you, my verbose villain; Always the champion
- [Citizen of the World](https://thewritink.com/citizen-of-the-world/) - Citizen of the world Free of loyalty and Full of love, Or so I said Once... When nothing else mattered But my desire To be anchored Tethered to another Indivisibly Unquestionably Irrevocably... And so I scoured the world Mindlessly In search of something Indescribable But unattainable... The childish heart matures Eventually And stops chasing worldly
- [The Ink](https://thewritink.com/the-ink/) - A poem or story does not emerge Organically But is bled from one's core Wrenched from the darkness of the mind To the surface of the page The ink soars up through its vestibule That can no longer contain its girth Demanding an audience; I am but the humble servant Mandated to open the door.
- [The Steeplechase](https://thewritink.com/the-steeplechase/) - And so, we meet again Pain: my old friend, Creeping in steadily Stealthily Amidst moments of slumber To jerk the body awake With a shudder A tremble Flexing your haunch muscle Such a showoff Just to remind me Just to reinstate Who's boss. Alright, I'll indulge you; Let's play. I hear you; there's your voice
- [Space](https://thewritink.com/space/) - Hey baby girl You're here! Let the world know! Fill your lungs With a breath of this world Greet your subjects; Let them know their place! Announce your essence Enchant them, enthrall them Amaze them That this tiny little thing Can take up so much Space. Hi there little girl Dictionary definition of darling! Maker
- [The secret of secrets](https://thewritink.com/the-secret-of-secrets/) - "I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again." ~ Anna Akhmatova, "A Land Not Mine, Still"
- [To Be Loved...](https://thewritink.com/to-be-loved/) - “What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.” ~ Jodi Picoult, "Handle With Care"
- [Mortal betrayal...](https://thewritink.com/mortal-betrayal/) - "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." ~ Sigmund Freud
- [Good Woman](https://thewritink.com/good-woman/) - "I want to be a good woman, And I want for you to be a good man... And this is why, I will be leaving you, And this is why I can't see you no more... I will miss your heart so tender And I will love this love forever..." ~ Cat Power "Good Woman"
- [Life without meaning...](https://thewritink.com/life-without-meaning/) - "Ambition called to me but i dreaded the chances, Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the wings of destiny wherever they drive the boat. To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning
- [The crime of love](https://thewritink.com/the-crime-of-love/) - “True love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.” ~ Jodi Picoult "My Sister's Keeper"
- [The loss of intimacy](https://thewritink.com/the-loss-of-intimacy/) - “Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to
- [Addicted to love](https://thewritink.com/addicted-to-love/) - "Your lights are on, but you're not home Your mind is not your own Your heart sweats, your body shakes Another kiss is all it takes..." ~ Florence & The Machine "Addicted To Love" (cover)
- [Writing is therapy...](https://thewritink.com/writing-is-therapy/) - “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” ~ Graham Greene

## Pages

- [About The Writink](https://thewritink.com/about-the-writink/) - Hallo! I am an author of three (so far!) published novels, which you can access on my main author website here: SFortuneAuthor The Writink is my online playground for words. It was created to house all the writings I've spurned over the years, and some random snippets I stumbled across that inspire me or make
- [Bursts](https://thewritink.com/bursts/)
- [Novel excerpts](https://thewritink.com/novel-excerpts/)
- [Short Stories](https://thewritink.com/short-stories/)
- [Prose](https://thewritink.com/prose/)
- [Poetry](https://thewritink.com/poetry/)
- [Site Map](https://thewritink.com/site-map/) - [simple-sitemap-group] [simple-sitemap]
- [RandomINK](https://thewritink.com/randomink/) - RandomINK is a section for me to post writings I come across by other authors, song lyrics... anything really. Indulge my randomness.

## Categories

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- [Bursts](https://thewritink.com/category/bursts/)
- [Prose](https://thewritink.com/category/prose/)
- [RandomINK](https://thewritink.com/category/randomink/)

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